…adopted a bold new mission and made history in 1974 as the first college in the country to fully integrate an environmental focus with its liberal arts curriculum. Today, Northland College is a powerful and intimate learning community of about three hundred students from across the United States and beyond….
…our mission of inclusiveness and environmental stewardship. Today, we honor you for your service to Northland College, the United Church of Christ, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Chequamegon Unitarian Universalist Congregation, and numerous other organizations. Your commitment to seeking and embodying truth and justice have made you a respected contributor…
…takes her students outside, she gives them a task. She’s sent them on a hunt to find various colors in nature. Recently, she posed the question – Is it winter or is it spring? Today, Smith lets the students come up with their own questions. She gives them an example…
…sounds, do anything. Picking up each one of my dad’s hats brought back such great memories representing so many lessons learned, friendships made, and experiences had. While all contributed greatly to the person I am today, I have the orange and blue to thank the most. “Think differently, live differently”…
Northland College announced today for Earth Day their choices for the best in nature writing this past year. Three authors have been selected to receive the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) for adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Established in 1991, the SONWA honors the literary legacy of…
BY ERIC WOLFF, Politico Morning Energy WAUKESHA’S GREAT LAKES EFFECT: The Great Lakes Compact, a bipartisan, collaborative agreement that largely blocks diversions of Great Lakes water, will be tested today when eight states gather to decide if Waukesha, Wisc. can start pumping from Lake Michigan. As Pro’s Annie Snider reports,…
…not return even when deer are out of the picture. For example, Rocky Island had deer in the 1940s, but even though the herd declined, the Canada yew that once flourished there had not returned by the 1990s and still hasn’t today. In contrast, she has seen Canada yew as…
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…and grasslands in the state today. Now therefore be it resolved, that the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation at its annual meeting assembled April 21-22, 2017 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin requests the implementation of public outreach programs to educate farmers and citizens on the benefits of pollinator-friendly solar electricity, creating pilot programs,…
…in March and April. The Mexican gray wolf was nearly wiped out with only a few remaining in Mexico. They were bred in captivity and reintroduced into the wild in Arizona and New Mexico beginning in 1998. Today, roughly 110 Mexican gray wolves live in the wild in the U.S….
