By CARI LEWIS, executive director, Door Community Auditorium At Joy Harjo’s recent Door Community Auditorium concert, I learned a new word: entrainment. No surprise that Harjo, our nation’s 2019-2022 Poet Laureate, would not just delight us with music and poetry, but would also inspire curiosity and learning. Still, this word – with its different meanings […]
Wisconsin Science Festival: Pumpkin Carving, Bee Hives, and More
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. The Wisconsin Science Festival begins this week. Crossroads at Big Creek joins with the Door County Library to assemble speakers and events for this two week celebration on the Door Peninsula. This year, the ScienceFest theme is “Agriculture” and many of the programs will be […]
Explore Wisconsin’s Stunning Fall Foliage On Your Next Outdoor Adventure
Madison, Wis. (October 4, 2024) – Autumn is here, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) encourages the public across the state to get outside and enjoy Wisconsin’s amazing fall colors over the coming weeks. Many of the state’s trees have begun to show off their autumn colors, brightening the view for state residents and […]
Clouds
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. At Crossroads at Big Creek, we and many of our friends, find ourselves obsessing about clouds. Appropriately, “Clouds” will be the topic for the weekly “Science Saturday” program. But clouds—the presence or absence of clouds—will affect most of the programs and projects we have planned. […]
DNR Announces 2023 Warden Of The Year
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that Conservation Warden Brandon Smith was recognized as the Warden of the Year for 2023. Smith, a member of the Racine-Kenosha Warden Team in the DNR’s Southeast Region, joined the DNR in 2006 and became a warden in 2013. He was presented the Haskell Noyes Warden […]
The Future of Boreal Forests
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. At Crossroads at Big Creek, our restoration team is completing the grant close-out reports for our multi-year restoration projects at The Cove Estuary Preserve and the Big Creek Preserve. This week, the Climate Change Coalition will bring Lee E. Frelich, the Director of the University of Minnesota […]
The Study of Bubbles
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. When we at Crossroads at Big Creek selected “Bubbles” for the topic for “Saturday Science” on the final day of August, the idea was to offer an effervescent fun-filled final fling to end our summer programming. Who doesn’t delight in blowing bubbles? And we all know about soap […]
Nature is Full of Hexagons
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Looking at the array of programs at Crossroads this week, we begin to see patterns…repeating patterns… of hexagons. If we are “looking,” we are seeing thanks to hexagons because the photoreceptors (light-catching cones in the back of our eyeballs) form closely packed hexagon-shaped patterns. And […]
Resources for Landowners Series at Crossroads
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Crossroads is excited to welcome Tim Dahl and Jason Miller from Door County Soil & Water and the Door County Invasive Species Team (DCIST) on Thursday, August 8 at 5:30pm to discuss resources available to all as part of the Resources for Landowners Series. The […]
Creatures that Return Each Summer to the Door Peninsula
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Our Door County summer residents, many of whom have, over the years, become Crossroads donors and volunteers, have returned. Some have raised their children here and now are sharing Crossroads and other natural areas with children and grandchildren. Curiously, this week, each of our nature programs will focus […]
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