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Mary Trettin and Mike Miller, Northland College

President Miller Announces Retirement

Northland College President Michael A. Miller, 62, announced he will retire when his contract expires next year. His retirement will be effective June 30, 2018 “Serving as Northland’s 13th president for the past seven years has been an honor and goes down as my final and greatest professional accomplishment,” he…

Great Lakes

Foxconn: A New Chapter in the Great Lakes Water Wars

Commentary

…Lakes Basin line. The first exception allows communities that straddle the Great Lakes watershed line to apply for a diversion, with the local governor having the final say on whether the diversion should be approved. The second exception involves counties that straddle the basin line. Communities that lie completely outside…

Northland College Women's Soccer TEam

A Winning Women's Soccer Season

…semi-final playoffs. The team lost in the championship round but even so, this was one for the record books. Northland College headlined the UMAC all-conference awards in November with with Wieland and five teammates as first team honorees—sophomore Gretchen Hamernick-Winter, junior Laura Rethman, junior Emily Romuald, sophomore Kaiya Goldberg, and…

Immerse Yourselves

…you’ll also discover astounding beauty, talent, and wonder. As e.e.cummings reminds us, it is not until we believe in ourselves that “we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” Which brings me to my final recommendation–to immerse yourself in mystery and the unknown….

WUWM: Historic Northern Wisconsin Estate Reborn with Environmental Focus

…The Griggs’s enjoyment of their oasis on the shores of Lake Namekagon stretched across three generations. In 1999, the Lodge’s final direct heir, Mary Griggs Burke, donated the estate to The Trust for Public Land. Her wish was that Forest Lodge become a hands-on environmental center. To read full article….

Great Lakes

Wisconsin Approved Massive Water Diversion for Pleasant Prairie Without Public Notification

Details highlighted in Peter Annin's updated book, The Great Lakes Water Wars

Wisconsin officials in 2010 quietly approved a massive new allotment of water from Lake Michigan to fast-growing Pleasant Prairie in Kenosha County without extensive public reviews required in other Great Lakes water diversions in recent years. The action in the final year of Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s administration, gave the…

Deer exclosure-Bayfield County

Wisconsin’s Disappearing Forest

Prof Sarah Johnson researches the botanical realities of deer browse

…what young men did and then watching an old wolf fade, the “fierce green fire dying in her eyes.” In his final paragraphs, Leopold warns of an ecosystem out of balance: Since then I have lived to see state after state extirpate its wolves. I have watched the face of…