RENEW YOUR SENSE OF WONDER

Listening Point

Ely, Minnesota

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Listening Point

We release a bi-annual newsletter in both physical and digital form. This is the place to learn about all the great things happening within our organization, the surrounding community & hear about the continued impact of Sigurd F. Olson.

Newsletter archive coming soon!

WHERE INTROSPECTION & CONSERVATION MEET

The Listening Point Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to preserving the physical land known as Listening Point and advancing Sigurd Olson’s wilderness philosophy.

SIGURD OLSON

ENVIRONMENTALIST

CONSERVATIONIST

AUTHOR

“I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it….Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.”

— Sigurd Olson, Sierra Club Speech 1965

“the personification of the wilderness defender”

Edgar Wayburn, Former Sierra Club President, Northland College

“He made wilderness and life sing.”

George Marshall, Former Sierra Club & Wilderness Society President, Northland College

EVENTS FOR ALL
AGES & SEASONS

SUMMER

FALL

WINTER

SPRING

Community Care & Restoration

Sigurds home, writing shack and the ~36 acres of land are managed, cared for and supported by local community members & volunteers.