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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Coggin Heeringa explores the intricate relationship between sunlight and trees — from shady forests to sun-drenched yards — revealing their remarkable ability to adjust like nature's own blinds. -
Oaks gather sunlight to nourish themselves for the coming year. Similarly, Interlochen Public Radio collects and retains resources each summer to sustain its services to the Michigan community. -
Georgia O'Keeffe supposedly hated flowers, but she painted many of them. But flowers aren't supposed to be beautiful for humans - they're the reproductive parts of plants. -
The hatching eagle symbolizes independence. But anyone who has followed an eagle nest cam knows that newly hatched bald eagles are anything but independent. -
Thanks to genetic engineering, roses now withstand shipping, and they bloom for weeks instead of days. But in doing so, the genes that create fragrance were bred out. -
Rainbows are visions but only illusions. And because of that, every rainbow is unique. -
Butterflies do not flap their wings like birds. So, how do they fly? -
Squirrels' long tails act as counterweights for maintaining balance as they travel from tree to tree, using forest canopy “highways." -
Water your plants when they need it, but let’s hope for some gentle and regular rains this summer. ”Rain will make the flowers grow.” -
The nest is not a bird’s home, but rather a nursery in which nestlings are fed, sheltered, and protected by the parent birds. And if they are to fly away, like our Academy grads, they need an “arts education” too.
