Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

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The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is an outreach arm of Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. The institute originated in 1971 at an environmental conference at Northland that hosted Sigurd Olson as a speaker. Robert Matteson was the founder of the institute. The Institute opened in Spring, 1972.^[1]