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Join University of Michigan professor Karin A. Martin for a conversation about her new book Get Plum Island!: Place and Politics in Massachusetts’s Ten-Year Fight Over the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. The book tells the story of how the USFWS became interested in establishing a national wildlife refuge in Massachusetts, why Essex County became a premiere location, and how local communities and the state nearly succeeded in having the refuge abolished.
Instead, after rounds of Congressional hearings and pocket veto by President Truman, a compromise was reached, reducing the refuge to about half its original size, and yet preserving the wonderful, vibrant refuge we know today. Karin A. Martin is the Mark A. Chesler Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
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She grew up in Amesbury, MA, received a BA from Hampshire College, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Accessibility Notice : We strive to make our events accessible. To request a disability accommodation and/or language services, contact the department listed in the "Contact Info" pane on the right.
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