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….
…tiniest details of plants and notice subtle changes in the forest ecosystems. Many of these changes were based on the availability of water. Plants, ecology, cells, chemistry, and water are regularly the subject of my current work. Without my biology background, my work would not be what it is today….
…three generations of involvement with the College, in April 2003, Kenneth and his wife, Patricia, gifted $1 million to establish the Bro Professorship of Sustainable Regional Development, a professorship that continues today. “As my grandfather [Albin] said in 1945, seemingly small events at Northland changed the course of lifetimes: a…
…I still think about today. It also focused on change at a systemic level which is where I want to be working. Individual actions are great but our environmental issues are big, wicked problems, and I think to solve them we have to make all of our systems more sustainable….
In 2014, Matthew Cooper had what many newly minted faculty scientists dream of: his own laboratory and a generous start-up package at a public research university. Then he heard about an opening at a liberal-arts college in rural northern Wisconsin and decided to give it all up. Today, Cooper is…
…nature, but more importantly connected to adults that help me figure out the challenge that many children have today when they have decisions that they have to make, the peer pressure, the bullying, all those things. Of course, we all experienced them, but I had people that I could really…
Almost two-thirds—63.3 percent—of Ashland and Bayfield county residents said they are opposed to the proposed Badgerwood LLC Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in Bayfield County, according to the Northland College Public Opinion Poll released today. The Northland College Center for Rural Communities (CRC) conducted telephone interviews with a random sample…
…said. “We can’t just change light bulbs, we have to change hearts. We have to change the story. “Together we can tip the balance, our acts have more meaning today than at any time in history. We need leaders, we need dreamers, we need gardeners and scientists and artists, as…
