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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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. -
Shakespeare could never have imagined dendrochronology, but he understood something equally important: forests have the power to change us. -
Around camp, spiderwebs prove to be much more than an insect trap. -
When sunlight on the horizon passes through smoke, the reds and crimsons of a sunset become especially vivid. -
Some familiar melodies are "played to death" until they have practically petrified into fossils. -
Here in our own Northland forests, our stately pines remind us that community can foster survival.
