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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 …
Mourning the Loss of Wally Dayton, Friend of the Wilderness
We were privileged to have Wally Dayton on the Quetico Superior Foundation Board for more than two decades. Wally died at his home on October 27, 2002 after a prolonged illness. …
Fall Burning Increases in BWCA, Remains Short of Goal
The U.S. Forest Service entered the fall burn season determined to carry out as many prescribed burns as possible in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), including several that they were …
Preserving Wild Country Along the Pigeon River
The Nature Conservancy of Minnesota is making two land purchases that will help preserve the scenery, history and unusual ecosystem of the Pigeon River border area between Minnesota and Ontario.
La Verendrye Provincial Park
Named for an early explorer, LaVerendrye Provincial Park offers backcountry camping, and a walk on the Canadian side. LaVerendrye is a Waterway Provincial Park spanning the distance from Saganaga Lake at …
Shirley Peruniak
Preserving the Quetico Wilderness through Writing, Teaching, Mentoring Shirley Peruniak answered the phone one early April afternoon at her home in Sharbot Lake, Ontario, and agreed to talk about her life …
Book Review Quetico Provincial Park: An Illustrated History
An historical chronology, and a treasure trove of photographs and anecdotes about the “family”of those who were passionate about the park, Shirley Peruniak documents the 1700s, when French and British explorers …
Rare Species Watch: The Three-Toed Woodpecker
The 1999 blowdown in the BWCAW damaged many acres of undisturbed boreal forest, destroying the nesting habitats for
many species of birds. The Three-toed Woodpecker, (Picoides tridactylus) however, is benefiting from this disturbance twofold. Their preferred habitat is disturbed areas within coniferous forests, but recentlyburned conifers are an added attraction. Damaged conifers become home to many insects, and this abundant food source attracts Three-toed Woodpeckers.
Forest Service Hopes 2002 Will be Better Year for BWCA Burns
Skiiers and snowmobilers may be praying for more snow this winter, but officials in charge of the large backlog of prescribed burning in the Boundary Water Canoe Area (BWCA) say drier …