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Peter Annin at beach

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

…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” tactics when those natural resources dwindled from overuse. To read the entire article visit MinnPost….

wolf laying down

Learn About Wolves

This section is a great place to begin learning all about wolves. Information in this section will start with the basics of wolves around the world and carry you through more advanced publications.

GivingTuesday is December 3, 2024.

GivingTuesday

December 3, 2024

This GivingTuesday, Northland College invites you to join our campaign, Rooted in Resilience—Let’s Keep Growing! After a challenging year, we’ve shown that our strength as a community knows no bounds. Together, we’ve ensured that Northland continues to be a beacon of environmental education and stewardship, deeply connected to the natural

Water Summit

…a frank and robust conversation about the program’s future. The White Paper The result is a White Paper, designed to provide the presidential transition teams context and analysis about the future of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. PDF of White Paper is available here. Resources Participant Biographies Great Lakes Restoration…

Northland College alum Carl Sacks looks at GIS with students

Mapping for a Better World

Created "The Black Snake in Sioux Country" Map

…me into a geographer, which is an important part of being a cartographer. You can’t make good maps unless you know something about space, place, and the natural world.” Sack recently defended his PhD dissertation in geography and works as the GIS faculty and program coordinator at Fond du Lac…

Northland College alum Alex Alvarez

Climate Change and the Risk for Mass Violence

Alex Alvarez '85 leads the Genocide Resource Project

…had used. Northland also first raised my awareness about the natural world and environment that has always stayed with me. Since Northland, I have had a deeper appreciation of and sensitivity to environmental issues, ecology, and climate. Usually, that was largely part of my personal life, but not the professional….