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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Sustaining Lake Superior in an Uncertain Future
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:54
	Publish Date:		2019-07-12 05:00:00
	Description:		Climate Change can be overwhelming to think about. Author Nancy Langston has been researching Lake Superior for over a decade now though and she says local stories of people taking action give her hope. Larry Lapachin continues our We Live Up Here series with the story. It’s unusual for someone visit Lake Superior during a cold, blustery week in January and decide that they want to spend as much time as possible on the largest freshwater lake in the world. But for Nancy Langston, a professor of environmental history at Michigan Tech in Houghton, Michigan, that’s exactly what she set out to do. Nancy still recalls that wintery day over 17 years ago near the Black River, just north of Bessemer, Michigan, that helped start her journey of researching and protecting Lake Superior. “And one day there, we went and snowshoed out to the Lake and there were these huge mountains of ice and those little ice volcanoes,” Nancy said, “and massive waves hitting and I fell completely in love with the
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