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Scholarships

…– $76,000 over 4 years) Competitive scholarships awarded to applicants based on their existing academic record and test scores. These scholarships are awarded shortly after acceptance to Northland College. Sigurd Olson Eco-Visionary Scholarship $1,000 ($4,000 over 4 years) Competitive scholarships created in the spirit of Sigurd Olson’s legacy that are…

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Buffalo News Editorial: Battle is brewing

years. When it comes to Great Lakes water, what happens upstream matters to New York. That’s why New York’s congressional delegation worked so hard to get the Great Lakes Compact passed, and it’s why the state has a history of heavily scrutinizing water diversion applications. With Waukesha’s judgment day coming…

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….

SONWA winners

2016 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Winners

Northland College announces Book Awards for Earth Day

The winning authors will be invited to speak at Northland College where they will receive their award and cash prize. Adult Winner Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, by Dan Flores, (Basic Books, New York, New York) Adult Honorable Mention A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a…

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Back from the Brink of Extinction

Mexican Wolf Reintroduction and Recovery

…in New Mexico and Arizona, and an updated 2017 recovery plan established delisting goals for a population in the United States and Mexico. In addition, our colleagues in Mexico have started to establish a population of Mexican wolves. Mexico will face similar and in some cases, more severe challenges during…