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  • The Bad River makes one last turn through the Kakagon-Bad River Sloughs on its way to Lake Superior

    From the Archives: The Chequamegon Bay Area Partnership

    Chequamegon Bay and the wetlands and waterways associated with it are one of the most ecologically significant areas in the Lake Superior Basin. The Bay and its surrounding watersheds contain approximately one quarter of the coastal wetlands and one fifth of the nearshore waters associated with the United States’ Lake Superior coast, and many of…

    From the Archives: The Chequamegon Bay Area Partnership
  • Alum Bob Schopp ’69 stands on the field at Ponzio Stadium

    For the Love of Learning

    In the spring of 1965, I graduated from high school and looked forward to the end of my formal education. After four years of being force-fed information for seemingly no purpose other than regurgitation for exams, additional schooling was on the bottom of my list…

    For the Love of Learning
  • From the Archives: The Sigurd Olson Legacy Project

    In the fall of 1937, Sigurd Olson converted a one-car garage located in front of his Ely, Minnesota, home into a simple writing studio that he called “the shack.” Olson spent many hours writing in the shack, and over the years it accumulated a rich…

    From the Archives: The Sigurd Olson Legacy Project
  • From the Archives: Promoting Nature-focused Literature for Children

    In a 2003 press release, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute announced that it was expanding its nature writing award to include a category focused specifically on children’s literature. As noted in the From the Archives installment from October 23, 2022, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature…

    From the Archives: Promoting Nature-focused Literature for Children
  • Apostle Islands

    From the Archives: Lake Superior Programs at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

    It’s just a short walk from the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute through the streets of Ashland, Wisconsin, to the shoreline of Lake Superior’s Chequamegon Bay. Since its founding, the Institute has recognized the unique value and wonder of Lake Superior, and the fall 2002 issue…

    From the Archives: Lake Superior Programs at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
  • Melissa Damaschke ’03 on a swing outside of the former Gaia’s Cradle, now the Diversity Center.

    The Company You Keep

    We usually think of a highway as straight. But the reality is, highways are full of twists and turns (along with the occasional bear or state trooper). My journey started with the image of a red canoe on a postcard, something rather useless in the…

    The Company You Keep
  • Black and white photo of a forest

    From the Archives: Restoring Northern Forests

    The proceedings booklet for the September 2000 Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute workshop titled “Northern Forest Restoration: Shaping a Vision” opens with a lengthy excerpt from Michael Van Stappen’s essay “In Praise of Yellow Birches.” Early in the excerpt, Van Stappen notes that before the Great…

    From the Archives: Restoring Northern Forests

Northland In The News

Chemistry in Pictures: Slimy yet sustainable | October 19, 2022 | Chemical & Engineering News
Northland College undergraduate students synthesized knotty goo as a part of research into chelating polymers that could play a role in environmental cleanup in the future.

Northland inducts 6 into HOF | August 28, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
Northland College is inducting six new members into its Hall of Fame on September 24, at 9:00 a.m., in conjunction with Fall Festival weekend (September 21—24).

Northland athletes playing it smart | August 22, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
Athletes from Northland College’s 2021–2022 baseball and hockey teams are recognized for academic honors by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Northland soccer: Converting potential to production | August 14, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
The Northland College women’s soccer team head coach Dan Dubois is excited to start the new soccer season strong. The amount of new talent coming onto the team, combined with the perseverance and potential that the returning players have already shown, give us high aspirations for the team this upcoming season.

Golfers scramble for Northland College sports | July 10, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
The Northland College Athletics Annual Golf Tournament included a turnout of 144 players at the Chequamegon Bay Golf Club, raising over $25,000 in support of Northland’s athletic programs.

Markets draw eaters to growers | June 24, 2022 | Agri-View
Student interns and staff with Northland’s Garden Crew are at the Ashland Area Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings selling plants they’ve grown.

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  • From the Archives: A Voice for Wilderness

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  • From the Archives: An Award for Nature Writers

    In October of 1990, Mark Peterson and Jeff Rennicke prepared a working…

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  • From the Archives: An Alliance for Wolves

    In 1932, Sigurd Olson completed a master’s thesis titled The Life History…

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  • Northland College Recognized Among Top Regional Colleges for Excellence, Value

    U.S. News & World Report recently named Northland College as both a…

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