The dynamics of land and water were on display for members of the Coastal Hazards of Superior group when they toured Lake Superior’s South Shore at a homesite in Herbster, Wisconsin. The home, now owned by Dan and Mary Schneider, was moved 20 years ago farther inland from an eroding lake bluff in one of the first efforts to address coastal home erosion and establish setback distances in Bayfield County.
Sea Grant staffer Natalie Chin, climate and tourism outreach specialist.provides insight into some of the ways her specialty has changed in the past 50 years, and how she hopes to see it progress in the next 50.
Science Communicator Marie Zhuikov and Natalie Chin were treated to a tour of the Superior Municipal Forest last week, courtesy of the Friends of the Lake Superior Reserve group and naturalist Mike Anderson. This green gem offers 4,400 acres of the best remaining example of a boreal forest in Wisconsin and it’s the third largest municipal forest in the country