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Alliance for Sustainability - Now Accepting Donations Online!
The Alliance for Sustainability
is now accepting donations online!
Please take a few minutes to support AFS.
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BRWA - Marengo River Basin Presentation - Tuesday, Oct. 7th at 6:30 p.m.
The Bad River Watershed Association
Connecting the People, Land and Water of the Bad River Watershed
presents the first in a series of programs
on the natural and human history of the Bad River Watershed Basin.
Tuesday, October 7th - 6:30 p.m. at the Four Corners Saloon
This program will focus on fisheries, forests, agriculture, and water quality in the Marengo sub-watershed.
Speakers include DNR fisheries experts, local farmer Dave Nortinen, UW-Extension Ag Agent Jason Fishbach, BRWA representative Tracey Ledder, and Dave Zepczyk, owner of the Four Corners Saloon and long-time Marengo resident.
For more information, contact Michele Wheeler at 682-2003.
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Alliance for Sustainability - Now Accepting Donations Online!
The Alliance for Sustainability
is now accepting donations online!
Please take a few minutes to support AFS.
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Sign Up Now for Fall Study Circles!
Sign Up Now For
Fall Study Circles! Choose from circles in Ashland, Washburn, Bayfield, Red Cliff, and Iron River. Most circles will feature books by Bill McKibben,
who will deliver
Northland College's Van Evera Lecture
at 7:00 p.m. on November 11th
at the Presbyterian Congregational Church in Ashland - 214 Vaughn Avenue.
Featured books include:
Deep Economy
The End of Nature
Fight Global Warming Now!
Maybe One
and
Hope, Human & Wild
by Bill McKibben
or
Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester Brown
For more information about study circles, contact us at
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BRWA - Marengo River Basin Presentation - Tuesday, Oct. 7th at 6:30 p.m.
The Bad River Watershed Association
Connecting the People, Land and Water of the Bad River Watershed
 presents the first in a series of programs on the natural and human history of the Bad River Watershed Basin.
Tuesday, October 7th - 6:30 p.m. at the Four Corners Saloon
This program will focus on fisheries, forests, agriculture, and water quality in the Marengo sub-watershed.
Speakers include DNR fisheries experts, local farmer Dave Nortinen, UW-Extension Ag Agent Jason Fishbach, BRWA representative Tracey Ledder, and Dave Zepczyk, owner of the Four Corners Saloon and long-time Marengo resident.
For more information, contact Michele Wheeler at 682-2003.
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Alliance for Sustainability - Now Accepting Donations Online!
The Alliance for Sustainability
is now accepting donations online!
Please take a few minutes to support AFS.
-
Sign Up Now for Fall Study Circles!
Sign Up Now For
Fall Study Circles! Choose from circles in Ashland, Washburn, Bayfield, Red Cliff, and Iron River. Most circles will feature books by Bill McKibben,
who will deliver
Northland College's Van Evera Lecture
at 7:00 p.m. on November 11th
at the Presbyterian Congregational Church in Ashland - 214 Vaughn Avenue.
Featured books include:
Deep Economy
The End of Nature
Fight Global Warming Now!
Maybe One
and
Hope, Human & Wild
by Bill McKibben
or
Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by Lester Brown
For more information about study circles, contact us at
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Being Caribou - Wed & Thurs, October 8-9
The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute and the
Northland College Student Association present 
Being Caribou
film showing
Wednesday, October 8th at 7:00 p.m. in the Alvord Theater at Northland College
In this epic journey, author Karsten Heuer and his wife Leanne Allison followed the movements of a herd of caribou from their winter home to calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Heuer and Allison trekked for 900 miles on foot and cross-country skis. This film features footage shot by Allison herself.
Then join us
Thursday, October 9th at 7:00 p.m. at the
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
for a public reading and presentation by the author, Karsten Heuer.
Heuer was the winner of the 2007 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for his book Being Caribou. The book explores the behavior and ecology of caribou, as well as the contentious debate over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Both events are FREE and open to the public.
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Sign Up Now for Fall Study Circles!
Sign Up Now For
Fall Study Circles!
Choose a circle and contact your circle leader ASAP as many circles will begin meeting the week of October 6th.
Meeting
Time
Location
Book
Leaders
Contact
Tuesdays
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Black Cat Coffeehouse
Maybe One
David Eades
682-5097
Wednesdays
7:00-8:30 p.m.
214 12th Ave East
Ashland
The End of Nature
Carole Kjellander
682-4821
Thursdays
6:30 p.m.
Dexter Library
Northland College
Deep Economy
Dave Thomas
thomasd01@
northland.edu
Tuesdays
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
229 S. Sixth St. or
84770 Lakeshore Drive -
Bayfield (alternating)
Deep Economy
Bill Bussey
Mark Musolf
Jocelyn Jacobs
779-5184 or
209-5800
Mondays
7-8:30 p.m.
White Winter Winery
Iron River
Fight Global Warming Now
Kim & Jon Hamilton
747-5261
Wednesdays
7:00 p.m.
Washburn Public Library
Deep Economy
Irene Blakely & Sharon Stewart
373-2907 or
373-2556
Mondays
6:30 p.m.
Red Cliff
Hope, Human and Wild
Grant Herman
779-5605
Wednesdays
6:30 p.m.
Northern Great Lakes Visitor
Center
Plan B:Mobilizing to Save
Civilization by
Lester Brown
Steve Hoecker &
David Thomas
685-2642
Most circles will feature books by Bill McKibben,
who will deliver
Northland College's Van Evera Lecture
at 7:00 p.m. on November 11th
at the Presbyterian Congregational Church in Ashland - 214 Vaughn Avenue.
For more information about study circles, contact us at
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Being Caribou - Wed & Thurs, October 8-9
The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute and the
Northland College Student Association present
Being Caribou
film showing
Wednesday, October 8th at 7:00 p.m. in the Alvord Theater at Northland College
In this epic journey, author Karsten Heuer and his wife Leanne Allison followed the movements of a herd of caribou from their winter home to calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Heuer and Allison trekked for 900 miles on foot and cross-country skis. This film features footage shot by Allison herself.
Then join us
Thursday, October 9th at 7:00 p.m. at the
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
for a public reading and presentation by the author, Karsten Heuer.
Heuer was the winner of the 2007 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for his book Being Caribou. The book explores the behavior and ecology of caribou, as well as the contentious debate over drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Both events are FREE and open to the public.
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