The Canoe: A Vehicle for the Spirit
Childhood Memories Evoke the Stirrings of Wilderness Experience By Pat Kallemeyn, Wilderness News Contributor One of my most vivid childhood memories is of the voyager art installed in my hometown’s post …
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Historic “Review” Islands Protected
Island home of legendary conservationist Ernest Oberholtzer to remain undeveloped Last September the Minnesota Land Trust and the Ernest C. Oberholtzer Foundation announced the permanent protection of the Review Islands – …
Book Review: Beyond Time Poems from North of the Tension Line
by Larry Christianson Paperback ISBN 0-87839-292-0 Poet and pastor Larry Christianson captures the essence of the wilderness experience in a new book of poems that draw from 35 years of canoe …
Wilderness News Summer 2008
The Summer 2008 issue of Wilderness News is in the mail and online, download the PDF HERE > Highlights: Transformation of a Landscape – What …
Book Review: A Paddler’s Guide to Quetico and Beyond
By Kevin Callan Published by the Boston Mills Press (2007, 192 pages, $24.95 Softcover) Reviewed by George Boody Kevin Callan’s most recent book weaves entertaining yarns about famous routes in Quetico …
Evidence of Meteorite Impact Found off the Gunflint Trail
By Charlie Mahler, Wilderness News Contributor In the Gunflint Trail region, which has seen its share of calamity in recent years in the form of blow-downs and forest fires, geologist Mark …
Artist in Residence at Quetico Provincial Park
In August of 2007 watercolor artist Geri Schrab spent two weeks living her passion in Quetico Provincial Park as part of the new Artist in Residence program. Schrab was the second …
A Perspective on the 100th Anniversary of the Quetico Superior Region
If the entire human history of North America was compressed into one year, a century would be the equivalent of a single day. Geologic time is even more absurd; a century …
Gunflint Green Up Commemorates the Ham Lake Fire
The day of the Gunflint Green Up dawned bright and cold, with three inches of fresh snow blanketing the ground. Spring snow certainly isn’t unheard of in canoe country, but it …
Transformation of a Landscape
What Global Warming Could Mean for the Boundary Waters By Alissa Johnson, Wilderness News Contributor Mention canoe country to any canoeist familiar with the Quetico Superior region, and an array …
A Man of the Trees
Jack Rajala has spent most of his life in the forest. He is well known in Minnesota forestry circles as an advocate for white pine restoration and as part of Rajala …
Sunnier Days on Rainy Lake
There is peace – or at least a cease-fire – in one of Minnesota’s longest-lived environmental and land-use conflicts. Leaders from Voyageurs National Park and the city of International Falls, two …
2008 Brings Few Changes to BWCAW and Quetico Park Permits
For those planning trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park, 2008 brings the 30th anniversary of the BWCAW and new fishing regulations to the Quetico. The …
Wilderness News Spring 2008 Issue
The Spring 2008 Issue of Wilderness News is online and in the mail, download a PDF HERE > Highlights include: Sunnier Days on …
Looking Ahead to the Gunflint Green Up
In the coming weeks spring will make itself known, and residents of the Gunflint Trail area will be watching especially closely for what green things will sprout up. After last year’s …
Wilderness News Fall 2007
The Fall 2007 issue of Wilderness News is online and in the mail. Download a PDF here or check out the highlights below. What’s …
Book Review: Daughter Father Canoe Coming of age in the sub-arctic and other stories of Snowdrift River and Nonacho Lake
by Rob Kesselring 2003, $14.95 Review by Toby L. Berry You don’t have to have a daughter, be a father or paddle a canoe to enjoy this book. Author Rob Kesselring, …
Wilderness Portrait: Chel Anderson
Chel Anderson has spent more than 30 years studying the small plants of the Quetico-Superior forest. A Plant Ecologist/Botanist for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources by day and an advocate, …
The Wilderness in Winter
By Charlie Mahler Here’s a Boundary Waters route I’ll bet you haven’t paddled: East out of Snowbank Lake to Disappointment Lake through Muzzle Lake to Thomas and Frazier Lakes. It’s a …
Bill Rom the “Canoe King of Ely”
Ely, Minnesota boasts over twenty outfitters that send visitors into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Campers rent the latest gear, groan under the weight of a canoe without realizing it …