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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Though  the Collins Learning Center will be closed on Independence Day, our trails (like always) will  be open all day, every day, so on Thursday, holiday hikers may see red, white and blue birds on each of our three Crossroads preserves. Then July 5 at 5:30 pm, […]

By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. This week at Crossroads, our public programs focus on under-appreciated, but essential components of our environment: biodiversity, fungi and dark skies. On Saturday, May 11, the Crossroads Habitat Healers will plant native tree seedlings starting at 9:00 at the Crossroads Workshop, and at the same day, the […]