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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Most of the 275 species are small - they are little buttercups. -
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After a dreary winter of gazing at ice or grey waves under grey clouds, the blue of Grand Traverse Bay is remarkable.
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Each male wants to mate. He’s come this far, but even so, it could be yes, it could be no.
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The male ruffed grouse often sits on a hollow cylinder (a fallen log), but he is not striking the log, his own body or anything else to create his drumming.
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Ants - nasty little ants! - plant some of our most beloved spring wildflowers.
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Imagine the pent-up frustration,. the longing, and then finally, it was the "lusty month of May!" Folks could go outside, find some privacy and “throw self-control away.”
