We received this email from Nathan Yaffe, Carleton College student: As part of my Environmental Economics and Policy class, we’re conducting research on the different stakeholders relevant to the annexation…
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The 11 inches of snow we got earlier this week have made for a winter wonderland. The snowshoeing and cross country skiing are fantastic. And photo buffs like me are having a ball.
Erin Mayberry has a blog post on Northfield.org about Community Ed and Rec’s Snowshoeing 101 class on Saturday.
I took the photo above yesterday in Carleton’s Upper Arb. Here are 6 more, 3 of them macros:
There’s an ice palace in the Carleton Arb, just off the start of the Ann Sipfle Memorial Ski Trail. Candles are stuck on the sides of the inside walls. Looks…
Signs are posted in the Carleton Arb reminding users of the rules for winter use.
Here’s more from the Arb page on Cross County Skiing:
It’s the last day of a warm November and with the weather about to shift, here’s a look at some fall color photos of the Carleton Arb and of downtown Northfield via my camera’s macro lens. While the killer frosts in early October ruined much of the area’s usually spectacular fall color, it made for some interesting close-ups.
Carleton Arb’s annual deer management hunt begins today. The warning signs are up, so be sure to stay on the trails. FYI, Nancy Braker, Arb director, is our radio show/podcast next Monday.
Here’s a short video on why we motorcyclists refer to white-tailed deer as forest rats:
For National Coming Out Day, two Carleton students taking Doug McGill’s fall journalism class recently published Northfield-related stories: Debbie Wong published “Coming Out Day” Raises Issues and Eyebrows in Northfield on the new Pressville blog and Maia Rodriguez published On National Coming Out Day, Northfield Reflects on Its "Gay-Friendliness" on Northfield.org. I found it troubling that neither of them mentioned or linked to our 2007 blog post, How gay-friendly is Northfield? with the 30 comments attached. (continued)
Doug McGill, visiting instructor in English at Carleton, is teaching a "Journey in Journalism" class in the English department this term, similar to last year with its focus on…
I’ve been taking macro photos of the fall colors in the past couple of weeks, mainly in the Carleton Arb but also around the wetland NW of the Skoglund parking…