The League of Women Voters of Berrien and Cass Counties is offering everyone a chance to learn about climate change and its effects on the Lake Michigan region with an event next week. Chapter President Faith Schoon tells us this is as the region comes out of a period of unusually high water levels in the lake.
“With that goes shoreline issues like shoreline resilience and the ways people are trying to protect their shoreline,” Schoon said. “Sometimes they armor them with ‘hard armor’ like rocks and steel walls, that type of thing. Other people are using soft, ecologically friendly ways to protect the shoreline.”
Schoon says the lake and shoreline have been affected by high rainfall and a lack of ice cover in the winter. Thursday’s session will be presented by Elizabeth Guscott-Mueller and David Mueller, both attorneys with expertise in environmental law. Elizabeth is the president of the League of Women Voters Lake Michigan Region. Those who wish to attend can do so in person or on Zoom. The presentation will be held on Thursday, March 16 at 7 p.m. at Berrien Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in St. Joseph. We have the Zoom link at our website.
