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The Summer Issue of Wilderness News is Online – we look to the future of Minnesota’s Wild Rice, celebrate the fiftieth year of the Wilderness Act that created the BWCAW, and so much more.
Quetico Superior Foundation Board member since 2011 Please tell us what your involvement with the Quetico Superior Foundation means to you. It is a privilege to work with a passionate group …
An essay by Siri Linquist Fair warning: this is a call to arms; within a short address to the love I have for canoe trips. This is written in postscript to …
By Bear Paulsen Why would anyone go camping in the winter? From my experience ‘insane’ is the most frequent adjective applied to those of us who willingly camp in the winter. …
By Alissa Johnson When I was a kid, paddling the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness with my family, I didn’t realize that the final word in its name had only been …
Board member since 2004 Please tell us what your involvement with the Quetico Superior Foundation means to you: The Quetico-Superior region is a unique landscape that I have enjoyed visiting all …
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 …
The North House Folk School is a school of traditional craft—students can learn everything from knitting or making soap to boat building or timber framing. Located on the edge of Lake …
By Alissa Johnson For twenty years, Erik Simula has lived almost exclusively off the grid near the Minnesota and Canadian border. He hasn’t had a refrigerator or a freezer, and …
Check out the Cover Story: Meet Erik Simula Birch Bark Canoe Builder, North House Folk School’s Instructor-in-Residence Program, YMCA Camp Widjiwagan and Archaeologists Reconstruct the Past in the Quetico-Superior region…
The Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth held their annual Hawk Weekend Festival last weekend, and the results of their daily bird counts are coming in. The migration begins in mid-August …
For the first time since 1996, the Minnesota DNR has updated the list of endangered and threatened animals and plants in the state, adding over 180 species. Listed species are categorized …
By Alissa Johnson When a group of campers from Camp Manito-wish YMCA approaches its first campsite in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness or Quetico Provincial Park, the counselors ask the …
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 …
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. …
The Summer Issue of Wilderness News is now online. Check out the Cover Story: Sustainable – Ely Envisioning a mining-free future for the Boundary Waters, Wilderness Voices featuring Quetico Ranger Janice Matichuk, Camp Manito-wish and Meet Board Member…
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.
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 …
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 …
