By Jim Mosher

This site is very much a work in progress. It focusses on a troubled Lake Winnipeg, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. (Right now, it’s the world’s tenth largest in surface area. But one only has to look at the Aral Sea, and its disappearing act, to know that Lake Winnipeg’s current geographical cachet may change.)

Lake Winnipeg deserves to be an object of study. That’s not happening. Perhaps this site will encourage those in power and others to take the health of this Great Prairie Ocean seriously.

As a newspaper editor who has spent years studying this lake, I believe it’s long since time.

I have written many stories about this forgotten lake. Most can be found at the home of my newspaper at www.interlakespectator.com

This site, though, is not about what I have written nor the good work others have done. It’s about galvanizing an interest in an ecological issue that has yet to reach the portal to the general news imagination.

It’s about an example of neglect and indifference.

Lake Winnipeg may not compare to the Canadian Arctic nor the legitimate issues that reside there. But Lake Winnipeg is as much the canary in the ecological coal mine as any.

We should act or merely stand by to witness the decay of this Great Lake. In the first instance, we can make a difference. In the latter outcome, we may learn what to avoid in our future relationships with this great Earth.

Happy hunting.

Jim Mosher, Dec. 22, 2007

mosher.jim@gmail.com

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