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Sunset at Forest Lodge

Changing Climate, Changing Culture

Student-Led Conference at Forest Lodge

…a scientific and a cultural lens in order to effect change. Student Leadership “Attending the G-WOW training this past summer was truly life-changing,” Janssen said. “Before the training, I didn’t understand how to marry the scientific research on climate change, to cultural significance.” Fisher and Janssen believe that involving culture…

Happy Anniversary, LoonWatch

THE LAKE WHERE YOU LIVE

…set in deep black? Forty years ago, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College started a project called LoonWatch to “protect common loons and their aquatic habitats through education, monitoring, and research.” A highlight of last month’s Wisconsin Lakes Convention in Stevens Point was a panel discussion about LoonWatch…

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Safety and Security

…Securitas and is located on the second floor of Mead Hall. Services include: Provides 24 hour walking escort service Provides campus-wide security services Responds to all on-campus emergencies Documents incidents and communicates appropriately to pertinent departments Important Contacts Emergency Dispatch: 911 Campus Safety: (715) 682-1399, campussafety@northland.edu Duty Officer: (715) 209-6971…

Loon Awareness Week Poster photo by D. Peters

Loon Ranger Training Workshop [Virtual]

May 5, 2024, 2:00 pm4:00 pm

LoonWatch is hosting two virtual training workshops for Loon Rangers. These training workshops will include classroom presentations on loon behavior, ecology and habitat, what you can do to protect loons, and instructions for those participating in the Annual Lakes Monitoring Program. Advanced registration is required. Register Now Unfortunately, registration for…

Loon Awareness Week Poster photo by D. Peters

Loon Ranger Training Workshop [Virtual]

May 11, 2024, 1:00 pm3:30 pm

LoonWatch is hosting two virtual training workshops for Loon Rangers. These training workshops will include classroom presentations on loon behavior, ecology and habitat, what you can do to protect loons, and instructions for those participating in the Annual Lakes Monitoring Program. Advanced registration is required. Register Now Unfortunately, registration for…

wolf track in the sand

Timber Wolf Alliance Speakers Bureau Training

August 16, 2024, 4:00 pm6:00 pm

Join the Timber Wolf Alliance for an optional Speakers Bureau training before its Wolf Ecology and Conservation-certification weekend. You must register for that workshop to attend this training.

Film class and wild rice parching

Parching Paddle, Ricing Sticks, and Ricing Poles Workshop

October 16, 2024, 4:30 pm8:00 pm

Do you want to be ready for next year’s wild ricing season? Join the Northland College Indigenous Cultures Center and Hulings Rice Food Center for a Parching Paddle, Ricing Sticks, and Ricing Poles Workshop! This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged. To register, please reach…

Loons Spread the Good News about Menhaden

By Paul Spitzer, PhD | Reprinted from the Atlantic Journal New regulations clamping down on the commercial menhaden harvest are working—last fall’s Chesapeake Bay loon count offers proof. Autumn brings all manner of migratory waterfowl to the Bay, loons among them, and they are partial to the Bay’s annual crop…

Northland College alum Kayte Meola in warrior pose on mountain top.

Empowering Women in Developing Countries

Shout Louder, Try Harder, Never Give Up

…of concern for nature.” She met an anthropologist working with local indigenous women “and this appealed to me greatly, but I didn’t have the training to pursue that line of work at the time.” To get that training, she earned her PhD from Cornell University Development Sociology Department and did…

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