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Journalist Rocky Barker ’75 Presented Aldo Leopold Award

The Wilderness Society presented Rocky Barker ‘75 the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing during its annual governing council meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho, September 24, 2015. The award is given to editorial writers who articulate the importance of protecting American wilderness. Barker has been a tremendous influence in…

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….

Northland student portaging canoe

Outdoor Education

…situation, finding the techniques that work best for you. You’ll find out what causes accidents and how to avoid them; then we’ll let you make real decisions under our guidance, learning judgment on the ground, the way it should be. Graduates go on to instruct at wilderness schools like Outward…

Isle Royale

Isle Royale Wolves, Another Perspective

…colonize islands and later disappear. If wolves are reintroduced would it create an artificial situation that degrades the wilderness value of Isle Royale as a natural outdoor laboratory? Should we then also consider lynx and caribou reintroduction? Ultimately how we want Isle Royale managed for wolves or wilderness qualities will…

Gary Ferguson

2014 SONWA Winners Announced

…embodies Olson’s literary legacy through its articulation of the Wilderness Movement, exploring the fundamental meaning of wilderness and by being a “well-written story stylistically,” said Alan Brew, associate professor of English at Northland College, who served on the selection committee. “We definitely feel like this book captures the human relationship…

Northland students in canoes

Read. Write. Paddle.

Pens and Paddles is a unique, experiential English course that combines literary study with wilderness fieldwork. In the classroom, students read wilderness literature that includes Sigurd F. Olson. Then in May, they travel to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for two weeks on the trail, where they read, write,…

Sunset over a lake in the Boundary Waters

Stewards of Tomorrow: Boundary Waters Leadership and Adventure

June 18June 27

…a wilderness setting and look forward to being a member of a small community of adventurers for a week. Together, we will share in the unique experience of traveling to northern Minnesota, paddling and living in the wilderness for seven days with opportunities for art, stewardship, and reflection along the…

aerial view of campus

Conventional & Unconventional Best Lists

…friendly . . . with a penchant for activism and outdoor activities. In fact, life at Northland begins with a required Outdoor Orientation trip, in which first-year students participate in five- to 12-day adventures in the Wisconsin wilderness.” Northland College freshmen recently completed their August wilderness trips before starting classes…

TWA Wolf Awareness Week poster by Bateman

TWA Selects Artwork for 2018 Wolf Awareness Week Poster

Canadian Artist Robert Bateman Featured

…a fleeting glimpse of a handsome male as he is about to vanish behind a live oak into the evening shadow,” Bateman said. “Let us hope that we can put his species back into the picture of our vanishing wilderness.” Bateman painted Sierra Evening in 1994, four years before the…

Peter Annin at beach

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

…your favorite place or experience on Lake Superior. A. Several years ago my wife and I were wilderness camping on a remote uninhabited island in Lake Superior with our two sons, who were quite young at the time. We were far off the grid, a long way from the ambient…