…in honor of its 40th anniversary. Luminaries from the program’s early days shared their stories, and then audience members asked them questions. Out of all that came fascinating facts about loons which I’ll recount here, in no particular order. Care to guess how many loons there are in the world?…
…and later for world-famous Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (salary $65 per month), and attended Hunter College in Manhattan, receiving a master degree in music. In the fall of 1967, after sixteen years in New York City, Fitzgibbon returned to Wisconsin to take a teaching position at Cumberland…
…red wolves [Canis rufus] or eastern wolves [Canis lycaon]) across the world, in North America, and especially in the United States. In making their case, the authors seem to accept any data regardless of quality that support their case, but dismiss, deny, or ignore data that does not support their…
…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…
…into the debate over Great Lakes water use, and under what conditions users outside the basin of the world’s largest freshwater system can lay claim to the resource. . . . . “This certainly is no surprise,” said [co-director of the Burke Center] and writer Peter Annin, author of the…
…Trailer from Kurt Fausch on Vimeo. Fausch is a professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University, where he has taught for the last thirty-five years. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the American Fisheries Society and the World Council of Fisheries Societies….
…The unanimous decision favoring Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb of 70,000 about 17 miles west of the lake, is the first test of a 2008 legal compact intended to prevent thirsty communities or countries outside the Great Lakes region from dipping into the world’s largest source of fresh surface water. Tap…
…study, you are learning in the context of the world around you and the space and time you currently inhabit. It is absurd to try to study the desert when you live in the north woods. The very air you breathe is too heavily saturated with lakeside moisture to truly…
…MACNC) latest event in an occasional series of gatherings over the past few decades. And the first foray into the world of “kegling.” Look it up; those who studied bowling at Northland already know. Teams were loosely composed of Northlanders whose graduating classes spanned the administrations of Northland presidents from…
…twenty percent of the world’s fresh surface water.” Preorder your copies through Island Press and other outlets here. Book Tour Schedule Fall Fest Hometown Pre-launch Northland College, Ashland Friday, September 28, 2018, 4–5 p.m. Official Book Launch Discovery Center, Milwaukee Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 5–7 p.m. Author Talks and Panel…
