Coggin Heeringa
Outdoors with Coggin HeeringaCoggin Heeringa is the Program Director and Naturalist at Crossroads at Big Creek Learning Center/Nature Preserve in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, where she served as Executive Director for twenty years.
Heeringa has ten years of classroom teaching experience and was an adjunct instructor for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She also served as the naturalist at Newport State Park in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin.
She is a frequent contributor to print and broadcast media as well as a public speaker.
Heeringa has been the instructor of environmental studies at the Walter E. Hastings Nature Museum at Interlochen Arts Camp since 1971.
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Wearing masks isn’t just for Halloween or the theatre stage. Nature has been doing it far longer. -
Geese are sensing the urge to migrate. The seasons are changing and they can feel it in their bones. -
Falling leaves may seem sad, but the process is essential for survival. -
Before artists could paint the sky, they had to grind gemstones into powder and pay a fortune for the blue. -
Max Richter’s recomposed "The Four Seasons" makes Coggin think about the unpredictability of autumn's weather.
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There's a reason for the hush. Songbirds are sluggish this time of year and others are already migrating. -
Monet’s paintings depict a flower that blooms for only a few days before submerging to protect its seeds. -
Birds can’t sweat. And their feathers, while beautiful, act as insulation. -
“Dawn" by Benjamin Britten depicts a misty sea at sunrise, a feeling anyone who’s seen Lake Michigan at daybreak will recognize. -
Just last year, an unexpected earthquake beneath Lake Michigan reminded us that the ground is never truly still.
