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WPR: Scientists Seek To Solve Marten Mystery On The Apostle Islands

Erik Olson, associate professor of natural resources

…was believed to be a failure until visitor photos surfaced and researchers captured shots of the marten with camera traps on the islands. “We just coincidentally had a carnivore project going on,” said Erik Olson, associate professor of natural resources at Northland College in Ashland. “That then documented them on…

The Penn family

My Northland Women

Three Generations of Penn Women

…provide an environment for learning that would promote sound moral and spiritual values. Growing up in Ashland, my sister, Vina “Bunny,” and I attended musical events in the Alvord Theatre. I was a member of the Northland College band and the symphonette while in high school. I don’t think there…

Madeline Island, Wisconsin Areal View

Wisconsin Still at Center of Water Battles

Ten Years After the Passage of the Great Lakes Compact

…Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College in Ashland, said the compact is an example of “big, important, transformative environmental pieces of legislation” that change over time through legal challenges and court rulings. “It’s always been expected that the compact would be, as well,” Annin said. To read the full…

Northland College graduation cap decorated with solar panels

A Future in Solar

Loucks ’18 to hold first paid sustainability internship for City of Ashland

…similar Northland was to Conserve, and that’s what lead me to apply. Q. What’s next for you? A. This summer I am working for the City of Ashland as their first sustainability intern in the Planning and Development department. I will also be continuing my work at the Center for…

underwater

Alumnus Karl ’04 oversees outdoor therapeutic program

Healing Through a Lense

…of Ashland, paddled to Waverly Beach, and continued on to paddle the entire shoreline for the next two months. “It was an adventure, like none other,” Karl laughed. They had days of seven-foot following seas, harrowing waves at Pictured Rocks, and a forty-eight-mile day on Pukaskwa shoreline looking for viable…

wolf laying down

Learn About Wolves

This section is a great place to begin learning all about wolves. Information in this section will start with the basics of wolves around the world and carry you through more advanced publications.

Loon and Baby

LoonWatch

Imagine a northern lake without the haunting calls and awe-inspiring presence of the common loon. It’s a disturbing thought, but in some places, it’s happening. Air and water pollution, loss of habitat, and increasing recreational activities on lakes all pose serious threats to loons across North America, and in some…

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….