Western Lake Superior

After a highly contentious debate and party-line vote in the Wisconsin legislature earlier this year, Governor Scott Walker signed a bill that would permit mining in an Iron County area that includes the headwaters of the Bad River, a major tributary of Lake Superior. Whatever the outcome of the mining controversy in northern Wisconsin, Northland College’s faculty and students have ensured that community members will have a body of actionable data with which they can participate as scientifically informed citizens in determining the future economic development and environmental protection of their region of the state. Learn more…>

Faculty

University of Wisconsin-Superior

Nick Danz

Plant Sciences, Ecology

ndanz@uwsuper.edu

Northland College

Sharon Anthony

Biology

santhony@northland.edu

Lake Superior College

Glenn Merrick

Biology