…Freshwater Innovation as well as community-based organizations and local government agencies. For example, researchers are working with the Burke Center on five separate surveys for lakes and lake chains throughout northern Wisconsin including Lake Owen, Lake Nebagamon, Namakagon Chain of Lakes, Cisco Chain of Lakes, and the Penokee area lakes….
…I never knew, again, there was no role models for me to talk to about a career and what I really loved, and that was the outdoors. One day there was a guy that came to town and my university and he interviewed me for a summer job that I…
Tiffany Kersten ’10 Tiffany Kersten first became hooked on birds at age twelve, after witnessing a flock of thousands of dancing sandhill cranes in a Wisconsin cornfield. She currently is the manager at the McAllen Nature Center in Texas and spending most of her free time fighting the proposed border…
A love for learning and Lake Superior is what lured graduating senior Megan McPeak to Northland College—and may someday bring her back. “I knew this was my time to be here—in my favorite place in the world—and to really focus on learning,” McPeak explained. Focused indeed. She double-majored in math…
Professor Tom Fitz to present findings By Danielle Kaeding, WPR News More asbestos-like fibers than previously thought have been discovered in the Penokee Hills. According to a northern Wisconsin geoscientist, the greatest amount of hazardous minerals are in the western part of the range, including an area that mining outfit…
…able to spend time with them.” In 2015, Corcoran, Hudson and Klein placed third at the Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. What became clear, is that the research happening at Northland College is on par with work occurring at larger universities. “And it is research that…
On the evening of July 11, a violent and torrential storm swept through northwest Wisconsin, saturating communities, farms and forests from Lake Superior in Ashland County south approximately 75 miles to the Hayward Lakes area. Twelve hours later, local residents woke to damage from rainfall totals ranging from five to…
By Susan Bence, WUWM The story begins with a St. Paul, Minnesota-based family named the Griggs. In the 19th century, the family made a fortune in the lumber industry, allowing the Griggs to acquire a 872-acre estate in Northern Wisconsin, called Forest Lodge. The Griggs’s enjoyment of their oasis on…
…Saturday, May 14, with the 7 p.m. film screening of From Wisconsin With Love at the Minnesota Street Market. The film provides the perspective of the northern Wisconsin community that in 2014 beat back what would have been the world’s largest open-pit taconite mine in pristine forest on the shores…
