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Deer exclosure-Bayfield County

Wisconsin’s Disappearing Forest

Prof Sarah Johnson researches the botanical realities of deer browse

…to early reports, the shrub was historically a dominant understory plant in many northern forests across the Great Lakes region. Meeker got to work almost immediately installing a dozen fenced squares in patches of Canada yew. A week after my trek with Johnson, Elias and I go for a hike…

Design board of Northland College graphic design student Victoria Schell

Summer of Coffee Love

…redesign, Schell helped to determine the underlying template, set up the files for population with copy and imagery, and took all of the product photography that was included in the finished version. She met every other week to go over projects and talk through upcoming ones. “This has really helped…

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

Combining Forestry and Native American Studies

Isa Meyer grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, but her family spends a week every summer in northern Wisconsin. When she started her search for colleges, she knew two things: she wanted to study forestry and she wanted to stay in Wisconsin. She discovered Northland College during family day trips to…

Northland College alumni Linda Rise and Andy Noyes stand in front of their van

Alumni Camper Van House Concert Tour

…and performing live acoustic shows in host homes, backyards, and patios. Andy will provide the music; Linda the logistics. Andy has worked as a musician since his Northland days, performing at celebrations, weddings, funerals, and for people looking to shake off the work week. With a tour of house concerts,…

Northland College student and wolf pup

Howling with Wolves

…present in the state was really surprising. There are way more packs in the state than you would think. Best experience? My coolest interaction with wolves was with a weekend field trip for my Wolf Ecology Class just a couple weekends ago. We were doing a wolf follow and they…

Alumnus Henry Fitzgibbon performs on stage at Northland College

Henry Fitzgibbon ’51 On Broadway

A Life in the Arts

…New York, he earned a spot in a professional Gilbert and Sullivan repertory company, called the Masque and Lyre Light Opera Company, presenting all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in sequence—a different one every week. Renamed American Savoyards in 1952, the company traveled from Florida to Maine, performed in…

Alec Drakenberg

Meet the Beast: Alec Z. Drachenberg

…with [Orientation Coordinator] Lucas Will, who tells me that the first Outdoor Orientation trip sessions are for athletes only. I emailed the cross country coach immediately. Peter Macky said, “We’d like to have you on the team… Make sure you get up to fifty miles a week to prepare for…

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Discovery Southeast Honors Teacher Allie Smith

…Southeast is also sending Smith on one of its three teacher expeditions, which are continuing education classes. She’s chosen to spend a week in the Juneau ice field. For the rest of the nature walk, Smith gets the class to be silent for a few moments, which as you may…

Northland College student in garden

Nonprofit Partner for Student Internship

…as well as the president of Northland College 1971-1987. This student internship, named the Wendy & Malcolm McLean Internship, will start in summer 2015 with one Northland College student working a minimum of 10 weeks at CTI headquarters in St. Paul, plus one week in a developing country. Founded in…

Adrian Wydeven

Wolf Biologist Adrian Wydeven to Head Timber Wolf Alliance

…Michigan on their own.” He hopes to continue that tradition, by responding quickly to correct misleading information “so we can continue to maintain healthy populations of wolves in our region.” To find out more about the Timber Wolf Alliance or about the upcoming Wolf Awareness Week October 12-18 visit northland.edu/twa….