…recognizing and encouraging contemporary writers who seek to carry on his tradition of nature writing. “The College announces the winners near Earth Day each year to highlight the best environmental and nature writing at a time when people are reflecting and thinking about their place in the natural world,” said…
…lose the environmental emphasis,” he said. “So I chose to come to a place like this.” Fitzgerald will be working on his science-based capstone project incorporating his research—including abundance analysis massive amounts of plankton collected at sites on Chequamegon Bay. He plans to pursue a future working on economic innovation…
Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosopher, environmental advocate, award-winning essayist and the author of books about our moral relationship to the natural world, will be the featured speaker in a…
…the natural world around them.” In a way, she believes this documentary will bring her relationship to the Lake and her heritage full circle. “I’m from Lake Ontario, I’m living on Lake Superior and these lakes are so important,” Moore explained. By “listening to a place” and telling the stories…
…the lake in the span of a generation. “Standing in the middle of the seafloor in a place where the water was once forty-five feet deep, the magnitude of the disaster can be difficult to grasp — nothing but sand stretches off to the horizon in all directions,” Annin wrote…
…Northland was the place. I had visited a number of different schools and none of them felt right,” Nick said. The leaf survived and the gamble paid off. Today, Nick is married to his Northland College sweetheart Caryn Green ’00, who he met on his outdoor orientation trip. He works…
…and quickly revolutionizing their area of environmental research. Parker, while a very recent graduate, touched the lives of countless students, alumni, and Ashland community members. His life was cut tragically short in early 2017 doing exactly what he loved to do: environmental research about the wild places he spent his…
…to first, make people aware of the signs, and secondly redirect them to another place.” The biggest barrier was that the signs blended into the background, he said. Student research assistant Kaylee Thornley, who spent the last two years observing and surveying beach usage, came up with an idea she…
As a cub reporter at the County Journal in Washburn, Rocky Barker ’75 found himself at the right place at the right time on March 2, 1977. There were plans to move a seven-room, fully furnished house using a thirty-ton truck, across the ice from Port Superior to LaPointe on…
