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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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. -
As summer progresses, the magic of a shimmering pathway of moonlight across the lake will arrive a little earlier each evening. -
For birds and humans alike, the shortest nights of the year can lead to surprisingly complicated relationships. -
Birds, mammals, insects and plants stay in sync with the world through rhythms of light. -
While people are waving flags in parades and at rallies, blue flags are quietly raising their own banners in wetlands throughout the region. -
Ornithologists agree that many birds sing at dusk — but they are not entirely convinced that joy is the reason. -
The rising air weakens, the clouds thin and evening settles in quietly — much like the calm that follows the storm in Cropsey’s painting.
