…develop food products, and vastly expands the college’s capacity to capture food waste for compost production. Farm to School programs are educating youth about the love of gardening and seasonal eating. And the recent formation of the Ashland/Bayfield County Wisconsin Farmers Union chapter promises to promote our region’s agricultural values…
…has become our thinking about photography,” wrote US News & World Report in 1990: And it all started here. In Ashland. Szarkowski was born Thaddeus John Szarkowski on Dec. 18, 1925, in Ashland, Wisconsin. Growing up, he biked all of Ashland County, fished the local streams, built balsa wood…
…camera per square kilometer. Over time, the camera traps recorded ten of twelve Wisconsin land carnivores, including American martens, black bears, bobcats, coyotes, fishers, gray foxes, gray wolves, raccoons, red foxes, and weasels. The cameras also captured images of semiaquatic carnivores, mink, and river otters, as well as raptors, small…
The Northland College Timber Wolf Alliance recently released a technical report, surveying the opinions of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Wildlife Society regarding wolf population goals for Wisconsin. The survey was conducted and the report written by Erik Olson, assistant professor of natural resources, and Adrian Wydeven, chair of the…
Northland College has joined a public-private partnership designed to accelerate the development of hazelnuts as an agricultural product found in wild form throughout the region. The College, American Hazelnut Company, Bayfield Foods Cooperative, the UW-Extension Service, and the University of Wisconsin’s Biological Systems Engineering department, together are undertaking a two-year…
The North Wisconsin Academy was founded in 1892 with a declaration to provide educational opportunities to people of the north woods—including immigrants, women, and Native Americans. The Academy later became Northland College and our commitment to that original idea has never wavered. Northland was one of the first institutions of…
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Transforming plastic into useful chemicals Combating pesky crustaceans and a method that could one day turn plastic into useful chemicals are two of the exciting discoveries headlining a statewide technology gathering in Eau Claire. The seventh annual Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium drew more than 150 researchers, entrepreneurs and students….
