Dr. Jonathan Patz attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris last month where he chaired a session on energy and health for the World Health Organization side-conference during… Read More →
On September 15, 2015, author Paul Fleischman accepted his Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for his young adult book Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines. Before an audience… Read More →
The Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute announced today that it has hired wolf biologist Adrian Wydeven to head its Timber Wolf Alliance program. “When it comes to understanding wolves,… Read More →
This year marked the seventh Wisconsin Loon Population Survey. This survey started in 1985 and is orchestrated once every five years on 258 pre-selected lakes throughout northern Wisconsin. This year… Read More →
Former LoonWatch Intern Christopher Emory describes his internship experience as “coming full circle, from learning about loons and educating the public last summer, to actually doing the hands-on field work… Read More →
By Nicholas G. Smith Last winter I applied for the LoonWatch internship at the SOEI. I saw this as an opportunity to learn ways to bring wildlife science together with… Read More →
By Paul Spitzer, PhD | Reprinted from the Atlantic Journal New regulations clamping down on the commercial menhaden harvest are working—last fall’s Chesapeake Bay loon count offers proof. Autumn brings… Read More →
If you are a Loon Ranger, most likely you are familiar with the name Mike Meyer, who has been doing loon research for the last twenty-five years. If you are… Read More →
Twenty Years of Wolf Recovery By Douglas A. Smith, wildlife biologist at Yellowstone National Park From Yellowstone National Park’s start in 1872, policy reflected cultural norms and allowed for the… Read More →
Northland College announced today for Earth Day their choices for the best in nature writing this past year. Three authors have been selected to receive the Sigurd F. Olson Nature… Read More →
