Recent Posts Tagged With 'carleton arb'

• A reminder to walkers and bikers in the Carleton Arb

  Posted on Sunday December 27th, 2009 at 06:21 in colleges, cross country skiing, sports & leisure, carleton arb

  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: The Carleton College Arboretum trails are groomed for both classic and skate skiing.  The trails in the ...

• Photo album: Arb in winter

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 07:28 in photos, snowfall, carleton arb

  Yesterday morning’s Alberta clipper dusted us with an inch or two of snow, prompting me to try my hand at another round of macro photos (see the autumn album) in the  Carleton Arb. I’ll probably add to this album over the next week as a para...

• Podcast: Guest Nancy Braker, Director of the Carleton Arb

  Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 11:27 in podcasts, featured, carleton arb, nancy braker

  Our radio show/podcast guest this week: Nancy Braker, Director of the Carleton Arb (AKA the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum), talking with us about the great things happening with the Arb and some of the challenges. (Guess which is the biggest pro...

• Photo albums: fall colors in the Arb and downtown

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 08:33 in photos, colleges, Macro Photography, carleton arb, downtown northfield

  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...

• Forest rat thinning begins today in the Carleton Arb

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 09:09 in environment, colleges, carleton arb, forest rats

  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 refe...

• Get outside will ya?

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 07:13 in photos, colleges, carleton arb, st. olaf wetlands

  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 lot (can someone please name that area?). I’m working on a macro photo ...

• Another spectacular sunset

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 08:13 in photos, carleton arb

  I happened to be biking and walking in Carleton’s Upper Arb last night when the clouds parted a few minutes before sunset. Click the thumbnails once to see a medium-sized version; from that pop-up, click the green arrow to see a larger version ...

• ‘Tis the season for monarchs in the Arb

  Posted on Sunday August 23rd, 2009 at 23:52 in environment, colleges, mpr, monarchs, carleton arb, monarch lab

  /*< ![CDATA[*/var so = new SWFObject("http://minnesota.publicradio.org/www_publicradio/tools/media_player/s_player.swf", "minnesota_classical_features_2009_08_19_monarchbutterflies_20090819_64s_player", "319", "83", "8", "#ffffff");so.addParam("quali...