…at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Ashland. Smith will talk about the wolves of Yellowstone; Ferguson will speak on the concept of “full ecology.” He will also be awarded the 2015 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for his latest book, “The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.”…
Northland College in Ashland, Wis., recently received $1 million from the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation to establish a graduate degree program. The gift is intended to fund all facets of development until the program can support itself. The College is currently working with a consultant to…
…on the first result on the Mother Nature Network article. I was then faced with a difficult decision, to choose between the seven schools I had been accepted to. For all I knew, the college could have been a figment of my imagination, or even a complete lie. But in…
…Educator Preparation Program was the recipient of the 2015 Model of Excellence Award from the Association of Independent Liberal Arts College for Teacher Education for its innovative clinical residency program, elements of which will be replicated for the TREE program. Ashland Ford Chrysler is sponsoring transportation for the program. …
By Rick Olivo, Ashland Daily Press The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative has received a great measure of bipartisan support since it was initiated in fiscal year 2010. From an initial funding of $475 million, the program has received an annual appropriation of $300 million in every year except fiscal year…
Then: Andrew East graduated in 2010 with a degree in natural resources. For his capstone, he surveyed small mammals to determine the prey availability and dynamics for northern shrikes in Ashland County. Through that project and several others in the natural resources department, he and others explored physiology, behavior, and…
‘University Place’: Rapid Changes in Wolf Policy Only Heat Up the Conflict By Scott Gordon, Wiscontext For Erik Olson, an assistant professor of natural resources at Northland College in Ashland, the biggest weakness in Wisconsin’s policy toward wolves hasn’t been any one particular policy decision. Rather, he asserted in an…
…Northland, and the fall out of the 2008 financial crisis. TRAVIS: How did you decide to attend Northland College? What factors influenced your decision? HELEN: I chose Northland for a few different reasons. I really loved the small college population, the student-to-staff ratio, and the rural character of Ashland. I…
…water is only going to come from more corners over the next several decades, as journalist Peter Annin explained in an Oct. 22, 2015 talk at Monona Terrace in Madison. Co-director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College in Ashland, he is the author of…
…me that he had been very badly wounded. His abdomen punctured in several places and it has been necessary to support him twice with artificial kidney. He is renal ward and still on critical list but Col. Dirks say she has shown considerable improvement since being admitted six days ago….
