By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. 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 pair bonding) is in the air And as the days get increasing […]
Fire & Ice, After-Dark Luminary Walk, Sturgeon Bay Ice Harvest
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. 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, a Luminary Lit Hike on our beautiful preserve. Also during the Fire & Ice weekend, […]
Are there Sturgeon in Sturgeon Bay?
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (January 26, 2024) – 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 Downstream Passage of Lake Sturgeon.” Because Crossroads is located in the City of Sturgeon Bay and our Cove Estuary Preserve […]
How the Indigenous People Lived
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. 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 lived. From the book “Braiding Sweetgrass,” we learn from Indigenous People how to live as we strive to “inspire environmental […]
Ski-For-Free Program, Fish Tales Lecture Series, and More at Crossroads
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. “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 Ski Season! And this week our programs, though quite varied, seem to relate in some […]
Fish Tales Lecture Series
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. Eyes will be on the skies this week at Crossroads. Many folks seem to be longing for snow clouds, but next Saturday, it would be splendid if the skies would clear for the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society’s Viewing Night. But looking ahead to next week, we […]
Hexagons: 6-Sided Crystals of Water We Call Snowflakes
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. The topic for the Saturday Science program this week is “Hexagons.” It may seem to folks that we at Crossroads are obsessed with hexagons—the six-sided polygons that show up in everything from honeycombs and ancient coral fossils to the mirrors on the James Webb Telescope. […]
Tree Rings
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. This weekend, Crossroads will ring in the New Year! Appropriate to the celebration, our Saturday Science Program will feature “Annual Rings,” and at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, we host the Wild Ones/Master Gardener Last Sunset of 2023 Hike, which will start from the Collins Learning […]
The Longest Night of the Year
By Coggin Heeringa, Interpretive Naturalist, Crossroads at Big Creek, Inc. With the exception of our friends in the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society who think fifteen hours of darkness is a good thing, most of us, regardless of our ancestry or religious beliefs, long for light during this dark part of the year. At the exact […]
A Glimpse of Christmas Past
Heritage Village has been transformed to a holiday wonderland! Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (December 12, 2023) – Don’t miss the opportunity to see Heritage Village like never before – at nighttime beautifully lit and decorated for the holidays! We invited local nonprofit organizations to each decorate a building for Christmas. In a friendly yet spirited competition, each […]
