…a frank and robust conversation about the program’s future. The White Paper The result is a White Paper, designed to provide the presidential transition teams context and analysis about the future of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. PDF of White Paper is available here. Resources Participant Biographies Great Lakes Restoration…
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….
Northland College announced today that it will add women’s hockey to its NCAA Division III hockey program, effective for the 2016-2017 season. The College has already begun a search for a coach. “The driving force behind the decision is the continued growth of hockey and Northland’s location, central in a…
…with a focus on the Great Lakes Compact, a legal document designed to keep Great Lakes water inside the Great Lakes Basin. As the codirector of the Northland College Mary Griggs Burke Center, Annin has been following, reporting, speaking and writing about the current diversion application from Waukesha, Wis., a…
…President George W. Bush. Population growth, prolonged drought and other new demands for water are factors that could prompt other regions to push hard for Great Lakes water. Gov. Jim Doyle in 2008 after passage in Wisconsin of enabling legislation governing the Great Lakes Compact. “What will really test this…
…more about issues that concern Indigenous peoples, and promote awareness of Native American and Indigenous cultures through planning and participating in events. NASA meets weekly on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Indigenous Cultures Center Student Lounge (114B Mead Hall). This event is open to current Northland College students only….
BY ERIC WOLFF, Politico Morning Energy WAUKESHA’S GREAT LAKES EFFECT: The Great Lakes Compact, a bipartisan, collaborative agreement that largely blocks diversions of Great Lakes water, will be tested today when eight states gather to decide if Waukesha, Wisc. can start pumping from Lake Michigan. As Pro’s Annie Snider reports,…
…spent years fighting to keep Great Lakes water inside the Great Lakes Basin — Nova’s plan was a nightmarish legal precedent. If people were permitted to tanker water to Asia, how could officials prevent Great Lakes water from being piped to Dallas, Phoenix or L.A.? Politicians, journalists and the general…
…“The idea is to protect what we have and restore what we can—and keep in mind that wetland restoration has an economic side,” Cooper said. The annual value of Great Lakes fisheries is estimated at $7 billion and a majority of Great Lakes fish species use coastal wetlands at some…
…the wetlands in the spring to sample fish that use the wetlands to spawn. The project is part of a larger effort investigating how coastal wetlands support Great Lakes fisheries. Over a three-year period, the collaborative team will sample thirty-six coastal wetlands from across the Great Lakes basin. The $23,485…
