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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While people are waving flags in parades and at rallies, blue flags are quietly raising their own banners in wetlands throughout the region. -
Ornithologists agree that many birds sing at dusk — but they are not entirely convinced that joy is the reason. -
The rising air weakens, the clouds thin and evening settles in quietly — much like the calm that follows the storm in Cropsey’s painting. -
Nature, "adorned in varied colors," extends its spectrum beyond what our human eyes can see. -
Inchworms — caterpillars that appear to measure the ground as they move — are not worms at all. -
Sometimes, the most helpful thing we can do for our gardens — and for the life around them — is simply to let nature do the work. -
Every spring, light becomes life. Air becomes breathable. The land turns green. -
In an era of more frequent and intense storms, wetlands have become even more valuable — and many have been lost beneath pavement. -
Birdsongs aren't expressions of joy. They're messages — urgent, instinctive and purposeful. -
Stoop and feel it. Stop and hear it.
