…possible. “This is what I love,” she said. “I wouldn’t be nearly as effective as a teacher without the field work.” Johnson and college juniors Emily Leonard, Michael Sinclair, and Forrest Rosenbower spent five days and four nights nearly every week camping and working at fourteen different dune sites on…
…thousands of volunteers. In college and between jobs and on long weekends, she returned home to help out her sister, Yana Dee, and her sister’s growing clothing line. “I was convinced my next step was graduate school. I wanted to merge environmental studies with business, but I didn’t have a…
With the Great Lakes Compact celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, protections designed to fend off large-scale water diversions have never been stronger, experts said Tuesday at Marquette University Law School. But they also said future water needs are likely to place serious demands in the decades to come on…
…staff at UW-Madison. Fischbach experimented with the first batch of hazelnuts last week at the Hulings Rice Food Center at Northland College. The College is hulling, shelling, and cleaning the hazelnuts. The American Hazelnut Company, located in Gays Mills, Wisconsin, will do the final processing, transforming hazelnuts into gluten-free nuts,…
…the national park system is storied and complex. But there is little doubt that today the National Park Service manages some of the most highly protected, longest studied, and most publically visible wolf populations in the nation. This article appears on the back of the 2016 Wolf Awareness Week Poster….
The Northland College Native American Studies program and Indigenous Cultures Center is bringing Sofia Jannok, a Swedish-side Sámi artist, singer, songwriter, actress, radio host, and activist for Indigenous rights, to campus the week of Monday, October 3. Combining her heritage with Swedish pop, she will give a public performance at…
…sustainable community development major Sara Beadle, senior humanity and nature major Katie Nolan, and Ellie Zimmer. The four meet 1-2 times every week with each other and with other groups on campus to discuss ways to promote sustainability on campus. They’re looking specifically at the three pillars of sustainability: environmental,…
…woods as my classroom has made nature an intrinsic part of my daily routine. Within the first week, I was at Northland, I saw more stars than I had ever seen in my life, I saw bald eagles for the first time, I walked deep enough into the woods that…
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…
