Join the USDA Forest Service for the annual spring clean-up at Forest Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin! Activities will include, but are not limited to: Thorough cleaning of the boat house Fire pit preparation Trail and yard clean up This event will be held rain or shine. A tour of Forest…
April is an Ojibwe black ash basket maker and Northland College alum and has been weaving with black ash since 1998. She has researched and traveled extensively, sharing her skills with all ages. All participants must register and must have hand strength All materials are provided Must attend the entire…
April is an Ojibwe black ash basket maker and Northland College alum and has been weaving with black ash since 1998. She has researched and traveled extensively, sharing her skills with all ages. This workshop runs March 29 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and March 30 from 9 a.m….
Belt making with Adrian Klein. Call 715-348-6594 to register. Registration is limited to 10. All supplies provided Must be able to participate in entire workshop (4–8 p.m.) This program is free, made possible by a grant from the House of Welcome Cultural Arts Center….
By Adrian Wydeven, TWA Coordinator Isle Royale National Park wolves are doing poorly. This year only two highly inbred wolves inhabit the wilderness island in Lake Superior. To determine what should be done, the National Park Service (NPS) has developed a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) and recently collected comments…
I’m standing in a northern Wisconsin forest with botanist Sarah Johnson, an associate professor of natural resources and biology at Northland College, where I work. She has been checking text messages from her student researchers, who are working on Outer Island—one of the twenty-two Apostle Islands on Lake Superior that…
Free Speech TV (FSTV), a nonprofit, national, independent news network, announces the premiere of Paulette Moore’s, The Spirit of Standing Rock, Wednesday, February 15 at 7 p.m. CST. Free Speech TV will host a Facebook Live interview event with the filmmaker immediately following the broadcast at 7:30 pm CST. The…
As part of a collaborative research project with fisheries scientists from around the Great Lakes, Northland College Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation researchers set nets in the Fish Creek Sloughs last month to collect data on young fish. “The project is investigating how coastal wetlands are ‘nursery habitats’…
Sigurd Olson (1899-1982) was acknowledged during his lifetime as a leader of the American environmental movement, an emblematic figure for a generation of activists. As a writer, teacher, and activist who was a harbinger of the raising of America’s ecological consciousness, Olson’s history, writings, and This content was curated by…
