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Youth Outreach Programs

…vendors, Thursday evening reception, and Friday lunch. Register Today: $95 About the Conference Featuring authors, illustrators, and educators, the conference will focus on literature and the natural world. Highlights include: key note presentations by author Emma Bland Smith, winner of the 2017 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for children’s literature,…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…this inaugural program, the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute and Island City Academy officially launched the next sixty years of connecting regional stakeholders to the Griggs-Burke family’s conservation legacy and inspiring future environmental leaders. Since that first collaborative program, Northland College outdoor education students have developed and facilitated a…

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Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute provides leadership in citizen science, outreach, and education on regional conservation issues while fostering the next generation of environmental leaders….

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Environmental Law and Policy

Jessica Dexter is a staff attorney focused on clean water litigation and policy issues at the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest and has opened a new office for Environmental Law and Policy Center in Duluth, Minn. She is 2000 graduate of Northland College, where she studied environmental

Northland College Students at Apostle Island Ice Caves

Coolest School in the Midwest

Sierra Magazine Recognizes Northland for Sustainability Initiatives

…local foods (within 100 miles of campus). Voted to divest from fossil fuels. Northland College Student Association purchased 100, 200-watt solar shares at Xcel Solar Garden. Became Wisconsin’s first Bee Campus as a way to promote pollinators. Northland College is the home of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute and in…

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In Wildness and Wonder

The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Looks to the Future By Alan Brew, Executive Director of the SOEI Over the past year, in anticipation of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute’s fiftieth anniversary in 2022, the staff of the Institute have reflected on its history and deliberated about its future. We have…

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Outdoor Pursuits Programs and Services

…for every season and most group sizes. The Outpost is located in the lower level of the Ponzio Campus Center. You can reach outpost staff at (715) 682-1265 or via email. Fall 2019 Hours Monday and Wednesday 10 am-3 pm Tuesday and Thursday 2-6 pm Friday 11 am-6 pm  …

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Better than Xbox: the Apostle Island School

…was formed at the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute twenty-eight years ago. Twelve years ago, it shifted to the Outdoor Education Department, under the leadership of Professor Clayton Russell. Next year the Island School will return to the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, under the direction of the new Bro…