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Reconstructing the Past

By Rob Kesselring Archaeologists are painting a picture of Quetico-Superior’s first people and what the land looked like 12,000 years ago. Crouched behind a granite boulder we wait. A damp northwest …

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Meet Board Member John Case

Board member since: I’d guess I’ve been on the QSF board for 25 years. Please tell us what your involvement with the Quetico Superior Foundation means to you: I think it …

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Sustainable Ely

Envisioning a mining-free future for the Boundary Waters By Alissa Johnson   On the first day of June, thirty canoes and some sixty paddlers made their way down the Kawishiwi River. …

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Janice Matichuk: Quetico Ranger and Ambassador to the Wilderness

When Janice Matichuk accepted the position of Interior Park Ranger for Quetico Provincial Park in 1985, her daughter was five months old. The Cache Bay Ranger Station where she was posted lay 1,000 miles away from the log home she and her husband were building in eastern Ontario.

In the Words of a Quetico Ranger

Janice Matichuk is about to begin her 29th year as an interior park ranger for Quetico Provinicial Park. Stationed at the Cache Bay Ranger Station on Saganaga Lake, she has a …

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Northern Tier High Adventure Program

Steeped in 90 years of canoeing tradition By Alissa Johnson During the summer of 2012, the Northern Tier High Adventure Program helped 755 crews, most of them Boy Scouts, explore the …

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Meet Shelby Gonzales

Iron Range writer and marketing professional Home: Grand Marais Occupation: Marketing Manager at the Cook County Visitor’s Bureau and Outdoor Writer Radio Feature: “Out There” on WTIP, North Shore Community Radio …

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Meghan Cosgrove

Board member since May 2012 Please tell us what your involvement with the Quetico Superior Foundation means to you: Some of my most formative experiences growing up came from canoe trips …

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Abandon Camp!

  By Larry Christianson “Abandon Camp” and “Pagami Creek Fire” entered our boundary waters lingo in a sudden and dramatic escape from a fast spreading forest fire. But first . . …

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