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Mountain Biking at Mt. Ashwabay

September 28, 2024, 1:00 pm4:00 pm

…problem! We can provide a bike from the Northland fleet. Dress for the weather. Closed-toed shoes and helmets will be required. Vans will depart from Camp Brother Bear (Prentice Park) at 1 p.m. and will return students back to Camp Brother Bear. This event is free and open to the…

Deer exclosure-Bayfield County

Wisconsin’s Disappearing Forest

Prof Sarah Johnson researches the botanical realities of deer browse

…missing. In this case, a lot is missing: bush cherries, sumac, blackberries, saplings, bluebead lily, and Canada yew—basically, the preferred plant species that live within the “molar zone.” This is a forest of the invisible present—mostly trees and Pennsylvania sedge, a species that tolerates grazing by deer by regrowing from…

Northland College starry night

Skywatchers Bake Sale

December 2, 2024, 11:00 am1:00 pm

Come get some delicious, homemade chocolate-peppermint and vegan sugar cookies at the Skywatchers Club’s bake sale! Pricing $5/bag, cash only This event is open to Northland College students, faculty, and staff….

SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991–2024

Nature Books for Adults and Children

…Childs’ chilling experiences among the grizzlies of the Arctic, sharks off the coast of British Columbia and in the turquoise waters of Central America, jaguars in the bush of northern Mexico, mountain lions, elk, Bighorn Sheep, and others. Craig Childs writes about the relationship between humans, animals, landscape, and time….

Northland College graduate Matthew Koszuta

Koszuta ’18 Heads to OSU

Researching Orographic Precipitation

Name: Matthew V. Koszuta Major: Meteorology & Mathematical Sciences Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Q. How did you find Northland? A. My introduction to Northland College was through my friends/coworkers at a Milwaukee County Council Boy Scout Camp—LeFeber Northwoods Camps. This occurred the summer prior to my Senior year of high school….

Northland College student with journal

296 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail

Jane Dahlgren Hikes Solo for May Term

…Duluth, pop. 86,000, a seaport city on Lake Superior. Duluth posed a problem, regarding camping since there is forty-mile section without camping. Dahlgren had planned to stealth camp—waiting until it got dark to set up her tent in a park somewhere. But then she decided to call Russell and his…

Northland College alum Abe Lloyd harvesting wild rice

Wild Foods

Sustainable Solution to Big Ag

Abe Lloyd’s ’02 interest in wild foods dates back to childhood campouts in a vacant lot next to his house in Washington state and his childhood fantasy of never needing to go inside. “When I was at Northland, I began to think much more deeply about the environmental and social…

Study Abroad

Off-campus Study

…Development (OED 414 01) $1,225 Lake Superior Circumnavigation (IDS 180 01) $1,350 Paddling Instructor Development (OED 409 01) $400 Teaching in Environmental Education (EDU 250 01) $500 Urban Outdoor Education (OED 385 01) $400 Wildlife Handling & Immobilization (NRS 261 01) $950 Wyoming Geology Field Camp (GSC 482 01) $900…