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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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. -
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.
