Josephine Marcotty and Dave Hage will be presenting on their book : Sea of Grass, the conquest, ruin, and redemption of nature on the American Priarie, on Wednesday, November 19th at 3:30 PM in Curtiss Hall room 0013.

Dave and Josephine will talk about main points in their book, focusing on: why grasslands matter for the environment; the technology that allowed frontier farmers to “tame’’ the prairie in the 19th century; and signs of hope today as we try to curtail the ecological damage of agriculture.

Dave Hage, an editor and former reporter, oversaw environmental and health reporting at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for a dozen years, editing projects that won a Pulitzer Prize and an Edward R. Murrow Award, among other national journalism honors. His previous books include No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor’s War at Hormel, and Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work. A Minneapolis native, he lives in St. Paul with his wife.

Josephine Marcotty is an award-winning environmental journalist who has spent her life in the Midwest. She was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she covered complex, science-based topics. Sea of Grass is a natural expansion of her reporting on the vanishing prairie and the consequences of intensive agriculture. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband.