Coggin Heeringa
Coggin 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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Playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote about contaminated water more than a century ago, but threats to clean water persist. -
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Perhaps we humans would be better off if we stopped meddling with clocks.
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Purple dye has symbolized wealth for centuries, but its extraction had environmental consequences.
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Woods filled up with snow are protected from volatile temperature shifts.
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Whether windswept or carefully cultivated, trees are shaped by the world around them.
