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Annin on Waukesha

Michigan Radio

Waukesha, Wisconsin has a contaminated groundwater supply and wants to take water from Lake Michigan, but it’s not that easy. Peter Annin, author of The Great Lakes Water Wars, and codirector of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation joins Stateside staff at Michigan Radio to talk about the…

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Six individuals named to Board of Trustees

…with 3M, a diversified technology company with a global presence, in a variety of marketing roles. After spending much of his early years in the forested areas of New England, his introduction to the local eco-region turned into a life-long love affair. He became a Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve board…

Wheeler Hall 2016

Stolid Wheeler Hall

…on the second, and the third floor acted as a gymnasium. Reverend E.P. Wheeler, the pastor of the Ashland Congregational Church, which had founded the North Wisconsin Academy, became the College’s first president. His parents, Reverend Leonard Wheeler and his wife, Harriet, were missionaries to the Ojibwe on Madeline Island

Apostle Islands

STAR TRIBUNE: Near Madeline Island, fight looms over hog feedlot

By Josephine Marcotty Star Tribune AUGUST 13, 2015 BAYFIELD, WIS. – The vivid blue expanse of Lake Superior and the national lakeshore near Madeline Island here in northern Wisconsin have always been largely immune to environmental threats from factory farms — until now. A proposal to build the first large-scale…

kayaking students

Lake Superior is the Classroom

…on Knife Island, Minn., and the award-winning author of ‘Knife Island: Circling a Year in a Herring Skiff,’ who is also a musician and built his own house! Talk about the Renaissance man.” It wasn’t always easy sharing tents and meals with one another, and the group experienced moments of…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…will generate applied learning opportunities to enhance the College’s curriculum while providing meaningful learning opportunities for regional youth and adults. Last fall, Gingras cultivated a relationship with the Island City Academy, a project-based environmental charter school based out of Cumberland, Wisconsin. Outdoor education students in Coulson’s professional development program then…

Stockton Island

DNT: Wild discovery: American marten found again in the Apostle Islands

Northland College Prof Erik Olson key researcher By Sam Cook | Duluth News Tribune American marten have been discovered on Manitou and Stockton islands in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore for the first time in more than 40 years, park officials say. An American marten was verified on Manitou Island

Northland College student Isa Meyer works with a display in the Native American Museum

Combining Forestry and Native American Studies

…scholarships have been critical to her overall experience. “They have allowed me more time for my studies, and to become involved with the greater Chequamegon Bay community.” She’s worked for the last two summers at the Wisconsin Historical Society Madeline Island Museum in La Pointe, Wisconsin, located on Madeline Island—a…

FinalGreat Lakes Science for Parks Symposium 2023 Booklet

…G.6; Hart, John P.7; Kellner, Kenneth F. 3; Patterson, Brent R.8; Beyer, Dean E.9; Jonathan Pauli10; Mauriel Rodriguez Curras10 *mark_romanski@nps.gov 1 National Park Service 2 Michigan State University 3 Michigan State University 4 Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 5 US Geological Survey 6 Conservation Alpha 7 USDA –…