On October 21, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act. Sigurd Olson, who attended Northland College from 1916-18, had a lifelong relationship with the Boundary Waters, celebrating his honeymoon there in 1921, guiding numerous trips on its waters, living and raising his family…
…Island Wilderness Preserve as well as the Big Bay State Park lands on Madeline Island. “We will be looking at camera trap images to determined which species are present on the island and how abundant those species are. The primary purpose of this is to collect data.” To read full…
…with 3M, a diversified technology company with a global presence, in a variety of marketing roles. After spending much of his early years in the forested areas of New England, his introduction to the local eco-region turned into a life-long love affair. He became a Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve board…
…as outdoor filmmaking and aquatic ecology allow high school students to reside in the residence halls gaining a glimpse of college life at Northland. Other sessions like sailing in the Apostle Islands or backpacking in Pictured Rocks or paddling the Namekagon River offer the excitement of a wilderness expedition trip….
…example, I had taken statistics with Dr. Patricia Shifferd and struggled through it doing calculations by hand and really suffering. Yet, when I went to UNH and took a grad level statistics course, I found it relatively easy and in fact, we used the same exact text that Dr. Shifferd…
On a parcel of land known as the Maxwell property, a dozen Northland students follow Jon Martin, associate professor of forestry, down a narrow footpath near the winding banks of the White River. These students are in the Sustainable Forest Management May Term course and are using the Maxwell property,…
Some of these articles were published in 1951 in North Country Magazine. Sigurd also wrote a couple of hundred short sketches for newspapers; he wrote a few between 1937 and 1939, but most were from 1940 to 1943, and were syndicated to a number of newspapers, mostly in the Midwest….
Research, Analyze, Communicate: The Student Experience We take our location next to the largest freshwater lake in the world seriously. Through our laboratory, field research, and communications, we provide paid graduate level opportunities for undergraduates. Our student researchers, analyze, and communicate freshwater science—including climate change, toxic chemicals, Great Lakes policy,…
…past, where a massive wall of ice would have at one point stood on the horizon, occupying much of Lake Superior. Of course, I am also aware that I would have been standing under about five-hundred feet of water, with red clay sediment settling all around me to create the…
