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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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. -
During the "plume boom," an estimated 5 to 15 million birds — egrets, spoonbills, birds of paradise — were killed each year for Easter parade fashion. -
In many ancient cultures, palm branches held symbolic meaning. Still today, they are given out in Christian Palm Sunday services. -
In nature, in theatre and even in politics, misdirection can be remarkably effective. -
In early spring, many so-called green plants are tinged with red or purple. Nature, it turns out, doesn't rush the wearing of the green. -
Our climate isn’t "perfect all the year." But then, it turns out that Camelot wasn't exactly Camelot either. -
In Shakespeare's England, having "a February face" was a stinging insult. But what does it mean?
