…relationships to Native American communities. This is part of a larger cross-institutional project between a variety of Swedish and Wisconsin academics, museums, cultural centers, and K-12 educational partners, called Past is Present, that focuses on heritage repatriation efforts in Indigenous communities. Jannok will be on campus October 3-5 visiting with…
…quality. But equally as important, eating regionally benefits the environment and supports the local economy. Working to promote a safe and healthy local food supply is a win-win situation for everyone. Our student-run campus garden, named Mino Aki—Ojibwa for good earth, provides fresh produce to our cafeteria too. The garden…
Our lives are made up of encounters. Most are the everyday, unremarkable interactions making up a life. Other encounters are momentous, life-changing. Regional writers will share encounters large and small in the ninth annual Writers Read, this year’s theme being Encounters. At 7 p.m Friday, January 25 in the Alvord…
…in 1958 and went on to champion the Native American Studies program, the Native American Museum, to advocate for regional environmental causes, and to work tirelessly to educate the community about Ojibwa and other Native cultures. “Joe’s contributions to Northland are too many to count and too valuable to not…
…at least 116 years old, it was just a few years shy of being considered old growth by regional management standards. Even in death, however, Martin said the white pine continues to provide instruction in ecosystems. “A tree that once provided habitat for birds, tree frogs, stoneflies, and many other…
BY DAVE ULLMAN, Assistant Professor of Geoscience On those really hot days in August, I often like to ride my bike down to Maslowski Beach in Ashland to let my mind drift into geologic time. I’ll wade into the cool water and stare out across Chequamegon Bay, imagining a not-so-distant…
Evan Coulson, Bro professor of sustainable regional development, tells a story worth remembering. He was managing the rock climbing and rappelling site at Bob’s Rock in the Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest this past summer for a group of Chicago teens. This outing was part of a collaboration between the Sigurd Olson Environmental…
…regional agreement between the eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces signed in 2008. It bans the “diversion of Great Lakes water outside the basin, with limited exceptions.” Annin refers to the compact as a “legal water fence” that “is designed to keep Great Lakes water inside the Great…
