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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What looks like a massive forest of thousands of individual aspen trees is often just a few massive interconnected organisms called clones. -
In England autumn colors tend to be muted yellows and browns, but here in the Northern United States and parts of Canada we get bright red autumnal leaves. -
If a mother bear fails to accumulate roughly 30 to 35 percent body fat, her body simply reabsorbs the embryos. -
Deep in December, it's nice to remember where your food is cached - if you're a chickadee. -
The tree lets the leaves go, not because they are useless, but because they have another purpose waiting on the forest floor. -
When the days grow short and the birds stop singing, our resident mammals prepare to survive until spring. -
Individual notes become music. Individual dots become art. -
For almost every pigeon pair, it's a partnership that lasts until death does them part. -
Nature is far more magical than the Romantics ever imagined. -
For generations, anglers and campers have called loons "living barometers," believing their eerie calls foretold an approaching storm.
