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Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator Jordyn O'Gara

O’Gara ’18 Named Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator

Wolf Awareness Week Events October 23, 25, 26

Jordyn O’Gara’s passion for wolves started as a kid when she used to draw floor plans for the animal sanctuary so she could save all wildlife. Then, when she was 10, she and her parents attended a presentation at the International Wolf Symposium hosted by the International Wolf Center in…

Student at city hall meeting

Water Collaborative Connects Communities

…Kellie Pederson, Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Lake Superior Project Coordinator, National Marine Sanctuary Research in the Chequamegon Bay: • Steve Galarnue, Director of the Great Lakes Department of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources • Jay Glase, National Parks Service • Randy Lehr, Codirector of the Northland College…

veteran flag ceremony

Memories of a Fallen Soldier

sanctuary in the northwoods at Northland. Tom quickly fit in with the group of friends with whom he chose to play intramurals and we quickly grew close. When he had accumulated several quarters of excellent grades at Northland, he transferred back to Knox College to finish his studies. I drove…

SONWA Winners 2017

Honeybees and a trailblazing scientist top the 2017 SONWA book awards

…Karl, Get Out of the Garden: Carolus Linnaeus and the Naming of Everything, by Anita Sanchez, illustrated by Catherine Stock (Charlesbridge) Grades 3-5. Karl most definitely did not get out of the garden! This accessible and well-written book tells the inspiring story of the 18th century Swedish naturalist, Karl Linne…

Gary Ferguson

2014 SONWA Winners Announced

…a zoologist and persuading the Belize government to establish the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary and Jaguar Preserve. “Rabinowitz’s work carries Olson’s legacy through giving a voice to the wildness within and outside of each of us,” said SONWA selection committee member Eileen Van Pernis. The SONWA committees also recognized Margarita…

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Review: A Boy and a Jaguar

…jaguars in Belize, where he wants to ask the government to establish a jaguar preserve. He is given only fifteen minutes to speak and surprisingly persuades the Belize government to set up the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary and Jaguar Preserve. The parallelism in this book between the stuttering boy and…

Earth Day fern

7 Fun Facts About Earth Day

1. Anti-communist crusaders and the John Birch Society called foul on the proposed date for Earth Day—April 22, 1970—because, they discovered, it coincided with the 100th anniversary of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin’s birthday. As a result, some conservative public officials refused to sanction April 22 events. In truth, the…