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
-
If a mother bear fails to accumulate roughly 30 to 35 percent body fat, her body simply reabsorbs the embryos. -
Deep in December, it's nice to remember where your food is cached - if you're a chickadee. -
The tree lets the leaves go, not because they are useless, but because they have another purpose waiting on the forest floor. -
When the days grow short and the birds stop singing, our resident mammals prepare to survive until spring. -
Individual notes become music. Individual dots become art. -
For almost every pigeon pair, it's a partnership that lasts until death does them part. -
Nature is far more magical than the Romantics ever imagined. -
For generations, anglers and campers have called loons "living barometers," believing their eerie calls foretold an approaching storm. -
Shakespeare could never have imagined dendrochronology, but he understood something equally important: forests have the power to change us. -
Around camp, spiderwebs prove to be much more than an insect trap.
