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SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991–2024

Nature Books for Adults and Children

…of northwestern Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan-Lake Superior country. • 1999. Holdfast, Kathleen Dean Moore. A collection of essays in which Moore seeks to understand what holds her firmly to family and place. In twenty exhilarating essays, Moore explores subjects such as the sense of brotherhood fostered…

Glass of beer sitting next to Cabbie's Tap logo.

Ten-cent Taps, Lasting Romance & Ida's Special Sauce

…was the place to go for kids under twenty-one. It was the “student center” in the 50s. We walked there and walked back to the dorm regardless of the weather because most of us didn’t have cars. But we had to be back by curfew—or sneak in the back door…

Northland student portaging canoe

Outdoor Education

…renewal, or belonging through outdoor experiences. course list Natural History The natural history emphasis gives you in-depth ecological knowledge and the added skills of interpretation to help you connect people to nature. Our graduates go on to become outdoor education instructors, naturalists, interpretive park rangers, and environmental educators. course list…

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Gifts You Bring the World

…water to drink, food from the fertile soil, the companionship of clouds and wood thrushes, the radiance of your beautiful faces and for the first peoples of this place, the Anishinabek in whose territory we convene this morning. Gchi megwech for the song, for the high honor of an eagle…

Sunset at Forest Lodge

Changing Climate, Changing Culture

Student-Led Conference at Forest Lodge

…a scientific and a cultural lens in order to effect change. Student Leadership “Attending the G-WOW training this past summer was truly life-changing,” Janssen said. “Before the training, I didn’t understand how to marry the scientific research on climate change, to cultural significance.” Fisher and Janssen believe that involving culture…

Sigurd Olson Articles

Some of these articles were published in 1951 in North Country Magazine. Sigurd also wrote a couple of hundred short sketches for newspapers; he wrote a few between 1937 and 1939, but most were from 1940 to 1943, and were syndicated to a number of newspapers, mostly in the Midwest….