Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa
Every Wednesday on Classical IPR, Coggin Heeringa takes us into the great outdoors. She is the program director and naturalist at Crossroads at Big Creek Learning Center/Nature Preserve in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. And she's taught environmental studies at the Interlochen Arts Camp since 1971.
Latest Episodes
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Nature, "adorned in varied colors," extends its spectrum beyond what our human eyes can see. -
Inchworms — caterpillars that appear to measure the ground as they move — are not worms at all. -
Sometimes, the most helpful thing we can do for our gardens — and for the life around them — is simply to let nature do the work. -
Every spring, light becomes life. Air becomes breathable. The land turns green. -
In an era of more frequent and intense storms, wetlands have become even more valuable — and many have been lost beneath pavement. -
Birdsongs aren't expressions of joy. They're messages — urgent, instinctive and purposeful. -
Stoop and feel it. Stop and hear it. -
During the "plume boom," an estimated 5 to 15 million birds — egrets, spoonbills, birds of paradise — were killed each year for Easter parade fashion. -
In many ancient cultures, palm branches held symbolic meaning. Still today, they are given out in Christian Palm Sunday services. -
In nature, in theatre and even in politics, misdirection can be remarkably effective.
