![]() ![]() In recent years, various invading species have made these lakes their home, largely thanks to shipping vessels dumping these foreign species directly into these Great Lakes. As Egan puts it, “It’s the sign of a lake having the life sucked out of it.” The Death and Life of the Great Lakes has been chosen for the 2018/2019 Go Big Read year. Some of the species, who may have started out in one of the Great Lakes, have now spread to all of them.Īccording to a New York Times article reflecting on Egan’s book, although these invading species clean out the lake, they are also “sucking up 90 percent of the lake’s phytoplankton,” and that does not mean the lakes are benefiting from this change. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes chronicles the recent changes to the Great Lakes and the new species invading them in the past several years. ![]() ![]() Now that we have made the exciting announcement for the 2018/2019 Go Big Read book selection, let’s dive a little deeper. ![]()
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