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Posts by Coggin Heeringa
What’s Happening: Changing Weather
This week, the public programs at Crossroads will feature weather, native landscapes and birds, which, though different, are related because in ecology, everything is. On Saturday, March 23 at 2:00,…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: The Color Green
Wearing green, shamrocks, rainbows, and photosynthesis! Green is the color of the environmental movement and will be the theme of Crossroads programs during the week of St. Patrick’s Day. “The Color…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Understanding Estuaries
Crossroads at Big Creek will host a special Fish Tales Lecture at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 14 . Dr. Emily Tyner, Director of Freshwater Strategy – UWGB, will present “Research, monitoring, and outreach…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: A Land Ethic
In 2004, Gov. Jim Doyle signed legislation designating the first Saturday in March as Aldo Leopold Day in Wisconsin. At Crossroads at Big Creek, our first event was in 2007. This year, we…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Seasons of Change
Family-friendly programs will abound at Crossroads at Big Creek this weekend. Friday night, Crossroads will offer a Winter Board Game Bash for all ages. The weekly Saturday Science program will…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Creating Bonds
At Crossroads at Big Creek, the creatures seem to sense Valentine’s Day. A few days ago, we noticed a pair of red fox showing great interest in each other. Love (or at least…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Icy Harvests
In Door County, Destination Sturgeon Bay’s Fire & Ice Festival is always a highlight of winter, and we at Crossroads at Big Creek are thrilled to again host the kick-off event,…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: A Sturgeon’s Tale
Sturgeon will be the topic at Crossroads’ Fish Tales Lecture Series on Thursday, February 8, when Dr. Patrick Forsythe presents, “Elevating Optimism of the Menominee River Through Successful Up and…
Read MoreWhat’s Happening: Reading to Learn
Ever since we at Crossroads found artifacts revealing that people had lived beside The Cove Estuary more than a thousand years ago, we have endeavored to learn how the Indigenous People…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Free to Ski & Free to Learn
“To everything there is a season,” according to the lyrics of a folk song by the Byrds. Now that we have had some snow, we think … hope … it is…
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