Environmental groups filed a formal challenge on Friday with the Department of Natural Resources over the agency’s decision to allow the City of Racine to divert millions of gallons a day from Lake Michigan for technology giant Foxconn Technology Group and other users. The move once again thrusts southeastern Wisconsin…
…to the successful establishment of a population of Mexican wolves in the United States. John Oakleaf is the featured Timber Wolf Alliance speaker for Wolf Awareness Week at Northland College. He will be part of a panel discussion Thursday, October 24 and will give a keynote address Friday, October 25….
…in the Great Lakes states should continue to be federally protected under the Endangered Species Act (Letter to list_30Nov2015). The Northland College Timber Wolf Alliance has not taken a position on this issue. The TWA supports the scientific management of wolves and believes wolves play critical roles in forest ecosystems….
When Peter Annin, director of the Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College, was completing research for an updated version of his book The Great Lakes Water Wars, he discovered a detail about Great Lakes water diversions that had gone unnoticed for eight years. According to his findings, the…
…Kellie Pederson, Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Lake Superior Project Coordinator, National Marine Sanctuary Research in the Chequamegon Bay: • Steve Galarnue, Director of the Great Lakes Department of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources • Jay Glase, National Parks Service • Randy Lehr, Codirector of the Northland College…
Northland College senior Megan Mader inches a jon boat into the vegetation near shore at Galilee Lake, a shallow, 212-acre lake with a handful of cabins dotting the shoreline. Mader is conducting research on fish communities to learn more about the lakes of the Penokee Hills, located an hour southeast…
…research. The reception and lecture marked the start of the Northland College Fall Fest and preceded the Harvest Trail dinner. “This is a launch that will change the world and will change this region,” said President Mike Miller who welcomed the crowd in the Alvord Theatre at Northland College. The…
Sustainability, Community, and Music The annual Folk Festival was originally organized by John Everatt, Tom Perry, Chuck Perry, and Pop Wagner (above) in 1968. They were students at Northland College at the time and little did they know that the event would continue for so long. Now organized by the…
…the inaugural presentation of the newly formed Marvin Pertzik World Water Day Lecture Series Wednesday, May 4 at Northland College. Marvin Pertzik, a St. Paul attorney, was key in assisting the Mary Livingston Griggs & Mary Griggs Burke Foundation in making a $10 million endowment to Northland College in 2015….
…one course each semester at Cornell University and the Pratt Institute. Shepherd joined the Northland College Board of Trustees in 2017. The most memorable thing about attending Northland College? “Above all, it would have to be, and continue to be, the close friendships I made while attending Northland. We have…
