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The NAU Review —Timber. Check out Flagstaff’s logging history, photos of NAU through the decades and our progress to carbon neutrality

by Community Contributor • October 15, 2024 • Comments Off

Oct. 15, 2024

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Timber! Northern Arizona's Logging Legacy

Learn the logging lore of early lumberjacks

What started as a means of collecting timber for the transcontinental railroad quickly developed into the prosperous logging industry that gave the NAU Lumberjacks their name. Led by Cline Library intern Alexandra Williams, Special Collections and Archives chose to encapsulate 100 years of Flagstaff’s lumber-loving history in its exhibit “Timber! Northern Arizona’s Logging Legacy,” on display in Cline Library’s SCA gallery until August.

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Smoke stacks from a power plant spewing white smoke and steam into the sky.

New research raises questions about accuracy of climate pollution database

SICCS professor Kevin Gurney found that a global database co-founded by Al Gore was underestimating greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by an average of 50%.

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Wait … is that Louie the Lumberjack?!?

Sure is! Or maybe it’s present-day Louie’s grandfather. As we celebrate NAU’s 100th Homecoming, explore photos of the university throughout the years.

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Old photo with NAU cheerleaders and old Louie the Lumberjack mascot

Solar panels on San Francisco Parking Garage with San Francisco Peaks in the background. In Flagstaff.

Getting one step closer to carbon neutrality

Wondering how NAU is working toward this important goal? Find all the answers in NAU’s inaugural State of Sustainability report, which documents all the work the university is doing and plans to do to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. Learn more about the work of NAU’s Green Fund, the partnerships and grants that are helping NAU change how it does business and what you can do to help in your office.

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Padlock made with pixels on a computer screen

Protect yourself from phishing with these tips

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and ITS is encouraging all Lumberjacks to take steps to protect online data—both their own and the university’s.

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Marco Cabrera Geserick posing with other generations of his family outside

‘¡Presente!’ One person’s Hispanic heritage story

Assistant professor Marco Cabrera Geserick believes Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month is a time to remember that “we are here, we have been here, we will be here.”

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