In this blog, first published as a ‘Snapshot’ in Environment and History (November 2025) Eliot Fackler shows how the histories of western Lake Erie and the Black Swamp provide lessons from Indigenous land-use practices which might offer new ways of addressing current environmental challenges. On 2 August 2014, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and public … More Lake Erie’s Toxic Algae and the Dismal History of the Black Swamp