Ecological History of Northern Michigan University
Ecological History of Northern Michigan University

Author: Daniel Gocella

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13:

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"The purpose of this paper is to establish a chronological history of the land and environmental changes on the Northern Michigan University campus. To facilitate an understanding of the forces which constructed the topography of the region and to develop continuity throughout this history, I have included a brief description of glacial activity. The section devoted to pre-European human activity is based largely on speculation because the acidic soils of the Upper Peninsula and the shifting alluvial plains have destroyed most hope of recovering archaeologic evidence. Those that did survive, such as records of Indian trails, often lead to dead-ends, offering no explanations of their place for historic record. Also lacking from the archive data used for research is the purpose and use of land ownders who secured the original patents on the property that became the university. Again, speculation offers the only answers. Within the bounds of this history I hope to offer the reader a small piece of Northern Michigan University's past and with that, an understanding of the school's natural heritage."--Abstract.

The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan
The Changing Environment of Northern Michigan

Author: Knute Nadelhoffer

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0472050753

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One hundred years of scientific study of wildlife and environmental change at the University of Michigan Biological Station

An Ecological Survey in Northern Michigan
An Ecological Survey in Northern Michigan

Author: Charles C. 1873-1955 Adams

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-04-23

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9781354377604

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

ECOLOGICAL SURVEY IN NORTHERN
ECOLOGICAL SURVEY IN NORTHERN

Author: Charles C. (Charles Christopher) Adams

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781361965788

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Up North in Michigan
Up North in Michigan

Author: Jerry Dennis

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0472129937

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Northern Michigan is a place, like all places, in change. Over the past half century, its landscape has been bulldozed, subdivided, and built upon. Climate change warms the water of the Great Lakes at an alarming rate—Lake Superior is now the fastest-warming large body of freshwater on the planet—creating increasingly frequent and severe storm events, altering aquatic and shoreline ecosystems, and contributing to further invasions by non-native plants and animals. And yet the essence of this region, known to many as simply “Up North,” has proved remarkably perennial. Millions of acres of state and national forests and other public lands remain intact. Small towns peppered across the rural countryside have changed little over the decades, pushing back the machinery of progress with the help of dedicated land conservancies, conservation organizations, and other advocacy groups. Up North in Michigan, the new collection from celebrated nature writer Jerry Dennis, captures its author’s lifelong journey to better know this place he calls home by exploring it in every season, in every kind of weather, on foot, on bicycle, in canoes and cars. The essays in this book are more than an homage to a particular region, its people, and its natural wonders. They are a reflection on the Up North that can only be experienced through your feet and fingertips, through your ears, mouth, and nose—the Up North that makes its way into your bones as surely as sand makes its way into wood grain.

We Kept Our Towns Going
We Kept Our Towns Going

Author: Phyllis Michael Wong

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1628954523

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WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy. During this time the workers showed their political and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. Drawing on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of what single and married women could and should do as workers and citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room floor.