Mar 21
A week-long celebration in honor of Earth Day will begin on Monday, April 17, at the College of Menominee Nation, Keshena and Green Bay/Oneida, with campus cleanups, and end on Friday, April 21, with a free community event in Keshena. The theme for the week is Our Community, Our World, Our Future: Environmental and Climate …
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Mar 14
Group Opening Outcomes, Sustainable Forest Management, and the Menominee Nation Lands Co-authors: Christel C. Kern, Manfred Schoelch, Paul Crocker, Dean Fellman, Angela Marsh, David Mausel, Marshall Pecore, Joseph Phillippi, Ronald Waukau, and Anthony Waupochick Abstract: Ideally, variants of single-tree, group, and patch selection create new, spatially aggregated age classes and maintain a diversity of …
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Mar 14
Robin Kimmerer made a special visit to CMN to share her perspective of the relationship between humans and the natural world. Through the Community Read Event, the S. Verna Fowler Academic Library/Menominee Public Library hosted Kimmerer to discuss her book, “Braiding Sweetgrass” on March 2, 2017. Those in attendance read her book in anticipation of …
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Mar 07
The Learning Path Phenology Trail Implementation internship has been extended to March 17 at 4:30 p.m. This internship incorporates components of forest ecology along with development of a Citizen based phenology trail along the Learning Path on the East …
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Mar 01
We are now entering week four of RecycleMania. With 1,008 pounds of recycling and 738 pounds of waste after the first three weeks, we are collecting more recycling items than waste. This is great news for the college as we work to reduce our GHG emissions. Totals for each week are listed below. …
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