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296 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail

Jane Dahlgren Hikes Solo for May Term

…thinking off-campus and independent study. She wanted to hike the Superior Hiking Trail that follows the ridgeline overlooking Lake Superior in northern Minnesota. The south end of the trail is located just an hour from campus. Dahlgren had these goals in mind: to walk alone, reflect, write, learn the flora…

Northland College students help build a section of the Ice Age Trail.

Students, Faculty Add Muscle to Ice Age Trail

…Raschke , both majoring in natural resources with an emphasis in ecological restoration, volunteered on their own time and in the middle of mid-terms. More 175 volunteers contributed 3,262 hours to clearing brush, cutting new trail, building rock walls, creating a two-mile section of trail along the Chippewa Moraine segment…

Northland College student

EcoLeague: Semester Immersion

…Club events and stay connected to her adopted community in Rutland. At the Mountain Justice Conference in Virginia, Sophie learned about the devastating effects of coal mining and mountaintop removal on local Appalachian communities, and volunteered to help locals deal with water damage from recent floods. “Amidst all of the…

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….

Hal Welch and Patrick Shea bio outside Ashland

An American Pilgrimage, Of Sorts

Biking Ashland to New Orleans

Northland College sophomores Hal Welch and Patrick Shea departed Friday, April 28 on a 34-day, 1,800-mile bike trip from Ashland to New Orleans. As part of their May term semester, they will be biking along the Mississippi incorporating observations, interviews, and photographs of the people who live along the route….

Students hiking on York.

7 Things to Do When You Visit Campus

…to get you started. Copper Falls State Park Copper Falls is stunning and the walking trail exquisite, plus there’s a great picnic area and historic buildings near the parking lot. The trail winds around and over two bridges, providing different perspectives of the Bad River and its tributary the Tylers…

Three researchers walking through stream

Tracking Wildlife in the Tropics

…officials to monitor in their search for rare and endangered wildlife species. Park officials are currently deploying trail cameras to an area where a jaguar was seen feeding on nesting sea turtles and Olson will be returning in February to complete a follow-up wildlife survey using trail cameras. Costa Rican…

Pine marten

Carnivore Project Reveals Return of the Marten on Apostle Islands

…Researchers and students are looking for answers through a combination of scat collection, genetic analysis, trail camera work, and opportunistic observations from visitors and National Park Service staff. This past summer, Olson hiked most of the islands with trails and found numerous samples consistent with the characteristics of marten scat….