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Back from the Brink of Extinction

Mexican Wolf Reintroduction and Recovery

…success. The biggest concern in the 1982 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan was how to recover a species with only a few remnant wolves in captivity. Mexican wolf recovery could not depend on natural recovery like the Great Lakes population, or reintroduction of wild wolves from other wild populations like Yellowstone…

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…

Tyler Forks Community Forest in fall

Doug Wood Book Release and Author Q&A

November 29, 2023, 7:00 pm8:00 pm

On December 5, author and musician Doug Wood will be releasing his latest book titled A Wild Path. Ahead of the release, Doug will read short excerpts from A Wild Path and answer questions about the book during this virtual event. Doug Wood is an artist, naturalist, wilderness guide, folk…

SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991-Present

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…

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…

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….

Film class and wild rice parching

Manoominikewin Workshops—Wild Rice Processing and Rice Knocker Making

September 22, 2023, 3:00 pm6:00 pm

As part of our Manoominikewin Workshops, people can participate for free and learn how to process wild rice through parching, dancing, and winnowing. For those who are interested in making their own wild rice knocking sticks, please register in advance by contacting Barb Lundberg. There is a $10 fee for…

Northland College alum Carl Sacks looks at GIS with students

Mapping for a Better World

Created "The Black Snake in Sioux Country" Map

Carl Sack ’06 has always loved maps. As a teenager, he got into orienteering, which uses detailed topographic maps, and he was hooked for life. “I loved picturing the landscapes they showed to find the fastest way across wild country.” At Northland College, Sack would stare for hours at DeLorme…