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Q & A with "Great Lakes Water Wars" Author Peter Annin

…recovery efforts in the Great Lakes. I also wrote about wind farms on the Great Plains, forest fires in the Mountain West, drought in the southwest and issues of that sort. Q. How do the two fit together? Maybe the title of your book, “The Great Lakes Water Wars,” provides…

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Lake Superior is the Classroom

…due to more than espresso. They’ve just finished their freshman year in Superior Connections, a unique interdisciplinary course of study focused on the Lake Superior watershed. Founded in 1892, Northland College is located in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior and the Chequamegon National Forest with its resident wildlife. Northland’s 500…

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….

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Scientists Divided Over Delisting Wolves in the Midwest

…in the Great Lakes states should continue to be federally protected under the Endangered Species Act (Letter to list_30Nov2015). The Northland College Timber Wolf Alliance has not taken a position on this issue. The TWA supports the scientific management of wolves and believes wolves play critical roles in forest ecosystems….