For the past three summers, Northland students have helped to monitor bat populations on National Park Service properties throughout the Great Lakes region. Acoustic bat detectors—designed to record ultrasonic bat calls—are placed at a multitude of predetermined locations each year. The Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network, a division of…
…Chequamegon chapter leader, retired Bayfield attorney Bill Bussey, came to campus and spoke to the Northland College Environmental Council. Citizen Climate Lobby is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots advocacy organization with hundreds of chapters around the world. “I was pretty hooked when Bill was talking about tackling climate change through…
…located ten miles south of campus, as a hands-on field laboratory. These 140 acres were donated to Northland College in 1983 by the family of Mabel Cora Maxwell, to commemorate her life and her generosity towards the Northland community. As Martin and students travel deeper into the forest, young stands…
…a project taking some of the work that has been done on vineyard water efficiency in California and modifying it for grape growers in British Columbia. Buckles: And Northland College? Schreiber-Stainthorp: Northland was the best place I could have gone to college. The skills and experience I gained there helped…
…ceramics? A. I had a minor in art and was required to take ceramics for my minor, which I dreaded at first. I was always into drawing and painting, but never thought I would like sculpture or 3-D work. Stan Samuels was my instructor at Northland and he taught me…
Amanda Tutor ‘01, director of Chartwells, the dining service provider at Northland College, never intended on making food her career, but then her first student job at Northland was working in the food service office. She liked it so much, she worked there all four years and then stayed. “I…
…to witness programming that helps lower truancy and improve homework. “Mic has long been a committed and passionate advocate,” said Peter Annin, co-director of the Northland College Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. “Whether it is at the State of the Tribes address in Madison, or Northland’s Water Summit…
…that challenge. Now the challenge is on the consumers to make very conscious choices to ensure they are actually supporting small diversified farms, ideally local at best, and not corporate conglomerates—organic or otherwise. How realistic is it for Northland College to reach the goal of eighty percent for local foods?…
