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Spring Forest Play

March 15, 2024, 10:00 am12:00 pm

Forest Play is an outdoor, nature-based program for 3–5 year olds. We are excited to continue this adventure with youth this spring in our six-week program. Sessions are every Friday beginning March 15 and ending April 19, 2024. Forest Play provides your child with the opportunity to be outdoors in…

Forest Lodge Meditation and Cross-country Ski Retreat

January 24, 4:00 pmJanuary 26, 10:00 am

Retreat Details There are two options for this retreat: attending for the full weekend (Friday–Sunday, January 24–26) or joining us for one day (Saturday, January 25, only). View the schedule. This retreat uses sliding-scale pricing to make this experience more accessible. The suggested fee for the one-day retreat is $75–150;…

wolf track in the sand

Students Howl with Wolves

…Khadka, senior: As part of my Wolf Ecology and Management class with Professor Olson, we went out in the field one weekend and used radio telemetry and howl surveys to track wolves around the Chequamegon National Forest area. As a class, we drove around the forest roads, stopping every couple…

Aerial view of winter ski trails on Northland College campus.

Winter Forest Play

January 17, 10:00 am12:00 pm

Forest Play is an outdoor, nature-based program for 3–5 year olds. We are excited to continue this adventure with youth at the SOEI for our winter and spring programs. Winter sessions are every Friday beginning January 17 and ending February 28, 2025. Forest Play provides your child with the opportunity…

Aerial view of winter ski trails on Northland College campus.

Winter Forest Play

January 17February 28

…Which session would you like to register for?(Required) Winter Session (Seven weeks: January 17–February 28) Which session would you like to register for?(Required) Spring Session (Six weeks: March 14–April 18) Winter 2025 Forest Play Seats(Required) 2 seats available Price: Spring 2025 Forest Play Seats(Required) 1 seat available Price: Unfortunately, both…

Sunset at Forest Lodge

Forest Lodge Meditation Retreat

September 27, 2024September 29, 2024

Relax and recharge at the Forest Lodge Educational Campus for a meditation and yoga retreat. The schedule includes unstructured time in the woods, yoga, and guided meditation. Please contact Jodi Supanich at jodi@washburnmeditationcenter.com or 218-355-0049 if you have any questions. Retreat Details There are two options for this retreat: attending…

Professor Erica Hannickel sits at counter with glass of wine.

How Wine Shaped a Nation

Q&A WITH PROFESSOR ERICA HANNICKEL

…be better? But writing, ugh. Yet in the course of turning the dissertation into a book, a process that essentially entailed reframing or rewriting it a total of four times, writing became extremely pleasurable. I think this means it just took me this long to get to a place of…

Tulips outside of Ponzio Campus Center

2018 Honors Day Awards Recipients

…Bretting Photography Award Runner-Up Petter Bülling ‘Busy’ Barbara Bretting Poetry Writing Award Ella Shively ‘I Want to Be Awake’ Barbara Bretting Poetry Writing Award Runner-Up Christine Little ‘Brown not Black’ Barbara Bretting Fiction Writing Award Winner Ella Shively “Pain Au Chocolate” Barbara Bretting Fiction Writing Award Runner-Up Kyle Antholt “Take…

SONWA Winners 2017

Honeybees and a trailblazing scientist top the 2017 SONWA book awards

  Northland College has announced the winning 2017 books for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA). The SONWA committee awarded Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field by author Heather Swan the top prize in nature writing. “Swan takes an innovative look at the wonders of honeybees and…

Alec Drakenberg

Meet the Beast: Alec Z. Drachenberg

…with asthma to a Junior Olympic swimmer. During the summer before my freshman year of high school, I played water polo just for fun. I liked it, but it was only a summer activity. Freshman year began and I was introduced to Jim Vance, the coach of the triathlon team…