Mallard Island Ernest Oberholtzer’s Dream
The battle to spare the living wilderness is now living history and the men who fought that battle are among our quiet legends. Ober’s little island awaited it’s new mission and …
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Wilderness News Summer 2004
The Summer 2004 issue of Wilderness News is online and in the mail. Download a PDF here > What’s Inside: Mallard Island Ernest Oberholtzer’s Dream; …
The Quetico Foundation Celebrates 50 Years of Wilderness Protection
The Quetico Foundation came into being in 1954 with the encouragement and support of the Quetico Superior Foundation. It is dedicated to the protection of Quetico Provincial Park and other wilderness …
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule is the most significant public lands conservation measure of recent years. Protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land form logging and road-building, including 147,000 …
Book Review: Toward Magnetic North The Oberholtzer-Magee 1912 Canoe Journey to Hudson Bay
Published by the Oberholtzer Foundation Marshall, Minnesota (2000, 128 pages, $50.00-Hardcover) Reviewed by David Pelly, author of six books about Canada’s Arctic, including Thelon: A River Sanctuary. Note: This review by …
Dolmen Stones in the Boundary Waters
Just an easy paddle from the Sawbill Landing you may find one of the Boundary Waters’ hidden mysteries. Dolmen stones are usually a natural boulder supported by “peg” stones. They are …
Poem: A Canoe of Wood
A Canoe of Wood From the deep north words I come. From the tall cedars and spruce old as time my ribs are bent. From the peaceful land of Hiawatha I …
The Historic Lodges of the Boundary Waters Part II
[Part I of this story appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Wilderness News] The Big Resorts – Basswood Lake, Crooked Lake Throughout the 1930s, tourism spread rapidly into the roadless …
Book Review: Keeper of the Wild, the Life of Ernest Oberholtzer
by Joe Paddock Published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press (2001, 341 pages, $27.95 Hardcover) Imagine that a doctor gives you only one more year of life. Would you head for …
Wilderness News Spring 2004
The Spring 2004 issue of Wilderness News is online and in the mail. Click here to download a pdf. What’s Inside: The Historic Lodges of …
Wilderness News Winter 2003
The Winter issue of Wilderness News is in the mail and online. Download a PDF here. Highlights: Special Burn Issue: Fall Burning Increases in BWCA, Remains Short of Goal …
Fall Prescribed Burns Produce Positive Results
The US Forest Service, partnering with the Ontario Fire Service, carried out two successful prescribed burns within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) on October 10th and 11th. The Arc …
The Historic Lodges of the Boundary Waters
If you’ve paddled Basswood Lake to Crooked Lake, you’ve travelled an ancient route— favored by indigenous tribes and the Voyageurs, through a wild and peaceful chain of lakes, leading you to …
Remembering Joe Seliga
His canoes are used as part of a wilderness experience that teaches respect and integrity to young adults. By Timothy Eaton I had the pleasure of visiting with Joe on numerous …
The Foundation Mourns the Loss of Board Members
Ted Hall – a force for local activism and wilderness preservation A Quetico Superior Foundation board director for 32 years, Edward (Ted) Hall passed away September 23, 2003, at age 82 …
Wilderness News Fall 2003
The Fall issue of Wilderness News is in the mail and online. Download a PDF here. Highlights: Special Feature Part I: The Historic Lodges of the …
Hegman Lake Pictographs
These historic native illustrations are thought to be some of the clearest examples of pictographs in the BWCA/Quetico wilderness. The figures include a bull moose, another four legged animal, several canoes …
Protecting Gateways to Wilderness Areas
The Minnesota Land Trust uses conservation easements to protect tracts in three high-visibility lakes of canoe country. The Minnesota Land Trust, with funding from the Quetico Superior Foundation, has completed three …
Q&A with the Forest Service
Results of the prescribed burn that took place on Three Mile Island last September. With the completion last September of the Magnetic Lake and Three Mile Island prescribed burns, the Forest …