Evelyn McDonnell, professor of journalism and new media at LMU, authored a piece on Ernest Oberholtzer, the activist who led the effort to protect the Quetico-Superior lakes and forests almost a century ago. McDonnell writes, “The hermit history-maker modeled a life of coexistence with nature and harmony with humanity—a place where the fiddle of migrants played with the drumbeat of the indigenous, the call of the loons, and the lapping of the lake. A place where a man spoke for the trees, the lakes, the moose, and the people, and changed history.”

Source: Zócalo Public Square