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Forest Lodge Woods

Mamie Parker: On Fishing Not Kissing

…talk to about those things that help me get beyond some of those challenges. Q. You have worked your way up through the ranks of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Talk about that process. A. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has worked hard to try to make people…

SONWA winning books

SONWA Winners 1991–2024

Nature Books for Adults and Children

…country, still recovering from the Revolutionary War. Upon his arrival from France, John James Audubon discovered a world of wildlife, unspoiled scenery, and unexplored lands. • 2005. Where Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Jonathan Waterman. Waterman braves polar bears and frigid waters in…

Loon flying

The Uncommon Lives of Common Loons

…lake where they were raised. If they hatched on a flowage, they’ll return to a flowage. If they hatched on a seepage lake (not the best habitat), they’ll return to a seepage lake. All of that after a three-year absence, many different types of water bodies, and water quality during…

dogsledding

Live in Your Hiking Boots

College Magazine Names Northland College in Rankings of “Top 10 Colleges for Outdoor Enthusiasts.”

…body to do a water testing, take insect surveys and even fish to analyze the different water types, such as lakes, rivers, and bogs,’ said junior Alex Selle [who is majoring in natural resources with an emphasis in ecological restoration and water science]. “First-year students are required to participate in…

Peter Annin at beach

Who's waiting in line behind Waukesha to divert water from the Great Lakes?

…Waukesha’s if it succeeds – by other communities across the Great Lakes basin. In “The Great Lakes Water Wars,” Peter Annin wrote that Waukesha – once a “water tourism” destination on the strength, especially, of its supposedly magical springs – gained a decades-old reputation for its “pugnacious, irascible and unreasonable”…

Paulette Moore with her camera

Moore Takes Standing Rock Doc on 3-City East Coast Tour

Northland College Filmmaker in Residence Paulette Moore will be screening and discussing The Spirit of Standing Rock, her documentary featuring activists known as Water Protectors, this week in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Buffalo, New York Water Protectors have stood with Standing Rock Sioux leaders in North Dakota to defend…

Pebble beach

Complexities of Chequamegon Bay

Researchers study vulnerabilities.

…one of the main points that I can bring to a discussion on climate change is the perspective of time and the speed of change that are often hard to grasp.” Lafrancois will talk about how plankton are critical to the most loved aspects of freshwater systems—water clarity and fish….

Northland College graduate Olivia Anderson runs tests at the Burke Center lab

Summer Ideal Time for Gaining Professional Experience

Olivia Anderson, 2018 Graduate

…Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation in the ARELab. In the lab, I help run a few different tests on water samples that the Burke Center field crew brings in from water bodies in the area, and water samples from other clients. In the ARELab we also go out daily to…