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.
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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. -
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.
