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Back from the Brink of Extinction

Mexican Wolf Reintroduction and Recovery

…months following release. Many released wolves died or were removed for behavioral reasons; in fact, only about thirty percent of Mexican wolves from captivity have successfully produced pups in the wild. Also, the Mexican wolf reintroduction area was not in a large national park or wilderness system, but rather on…

In Wildness and Wonder

…transformative and sustaining power of wild nature—to Thoreau’s tonic of wildness and to Olson’s singing wilderness. And yet, the number of individuals who engage with nature continues to decline and the threats to wild nature are more pervasive and persistent than they’ve ever been. New technologies are also creating seductive…

SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991–2024

Nature Books for Adults and Children

…a journey through the heart of the Alaskan wilds—and into the heated political debate surrounding the Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Waterman’s unforgettable trek was aired on PBS as part of National Geographic’s Wild Chronicles series. • 2005 Children. Leave Only Ripples: A Canoe Country Sketchbook, Consie Powell. The story of a…

Alec Drakenberg

Meet the Beast: Alec Z. Drachenberg

Majoring in sustainable community development Competing in cross country Has dual citizenship having lived in Tijuana, Baja, California, Mexico, as a preschooler/ kindergartener, then San Diego, California, most recently. Q. You have been named the NC Beast. Why? A. This last summer, I stumbled upon a YouTube sensation called LA…

Northland College alum Abe Lloyd harvesting wild rice

Wild Foods

Sustainable Solution to Big Ag

…impacts of industrial food production, and came to see wild foods as a sustainable alternative to big agriculture,” he said. Lloyd names people who influenced his wild food passion. The first: Jim Meeker, a professor of natural resources, now deceased. “I took every class Jim had to offer and admired…

Professor Erica Hannickel sits at counter with glass of wine.

How Wine Shaped a Nation

Q&A WITH PROFESSOR ERICA HANNICKEL

…I stumbled on the Ohio wine story, a story that used all the same grandiose language, and made all the same promises as California—but was doing it decades before California wine hit national markets—I was intrigued. I grew up in the foothills of the Sacramento Valley but as a kid,…

Northland College graduate Aaron Schreiber-Stainthorp standing in a California vineyard where he directs sustainability.

From Grape to Glass

Making Wine Country More Sustainable

…possibilities for building better systems. Lastly, Northland embodies hands-on learning in a way that both taught me so much but also empowered me to realize how much impact you can have with a few simple actions. Read more about Aaron’s journey to a career in sustainability at Sustainable Career Pathways….

Sigurd Olson Articles

…Sigurd’s papers at the Minnesota Historical Society include the manuscript drafts of these articles, but not actual newspaper clippings. A sample of these articles appear below. Many of them probably were published as part of his “America Out of Doors” syndicated column, but there is nothing in his papers to…