Dear Sponsors of SB602/AB712, Members of the Committee on Sporting Heritage, Mining and Forestry, and Members of the Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, As you know, SB602/AB712 proposes to discontinue funding for wolf management and to make it illegal for state law enforcement officers to enforce laws related…
Think differently. Live differently. Northland College is a private, liberal arts college with a progressive focus on the environment and sustainability. We prepare 600 students from across the United States and around the world for meaningful lives and successful careers. Founded in 1892, Northland College is located at the tip…
Relax and recharge at the Forest Lodge Educational Campus for a meditation, chanting, and yoga retreat. The schedule includes unstructured time in the woods, yoga, chanting, and guided meditation. Jodi Supanich will guide meditation, and Jenny Tumas will guide chanting sessions. Please contact Jodi Supanich at jsupanich@northland.edu or 218-355-0049 if…
Harrison Lucas ’17 Major: Elementary Education with a focus on Social Studies Q. Why elementary education? How did you get on this path? A. Well, my dad is a teacher and so, I saw how he influences a lot of kids’ lives back home where I come from and I…
Researchers placed 160 cameras on 19 of the 22 Apostle Islands on Lake Superior, near campus, to see which carnivores were living there. After taking more than 200,000 photos over a period of three years, the team discovered that several carnivores are living on various islands in this remote archipelago…
…Lakes were normal. The Moses-Saunders dam was allowing 7,300 cubic metres per second through – just slightly more than the usual flow in recent years. Over the next 60 days, rain all around Lake Ontario would wash out records. Water rose rapidly on the Great Lakes and also the Ottawa…
By Danielle Kaeding, WPR News Colleges and community groups in Northwestern Wisconsin are exploring new ways to create a more-sustainable economy and build the region’s wealth. About 14 percent of residents in Ashland and Bayfield counties are living in poverty, according to most recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau….
By Thomas Glen ’67 Thomas Dean ’66 is one of six Northlanders who were killed in Vietnam and who have been memorialized on a plaque in the lobby of Wheeler Hall. Tom Dean first seized my attention when I watched him race about the athletic field—he having joined our intramural…
From memories of lazy Sundays floating down the Wolf River in an inner tube to tales of toxic chemicals flowing freely into the Fox, the stories we tell about water in Wisconsin shape the ways we understand our most precious natural resource. Two beloved writers share the story of water…
