Replinger Honored for Bringing Girls into Outward Bound Programming
We were happy to see Jean Replinger in a slew of newspaper articles this month–during the 1960s she helped open Outward Bound to girls. More recently, as an officer of the …
Books
Book Review: Bound for the Barrens
Bound for the Barrens By Ernest Oberholtzer Edited by Jean Sandford Replinger Mallard Island Books 2012 $19.95 Reviewed by Michael Peake. Originally published in Che-Mun, The Journal of Canadian Wilderness Canoeing …
New Book Voyageur Skies Featured at Dinner
A discussion of Don Breneman and Mark Seeley’s new book Voyageur Skies will be the main attraction at a dinner tomorrow at the University of Minnesota.
Book Review Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters–Quetico Wilderness
By Greg Breining and Layne Kennedy Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press 2010, 138 pages, $29.95 hardcover Reviewed by Michael Kelberer Paddle North is a collection of essays by Greg Breining …
Andy and Sue Ahrendt
What it truly means to be a ‘Boundary Waters Family’ The Ahrendt’s personal histories are steeped in the Boundary Waters experience. Having spent summers as staff at a local camp, they …
Book Review: Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters–Quetico Wilderness
Discover the essence of the Up North wilderness experience, essays by Greg Breining and images by photographer Layne Kennedy. It’s well worth reading, and a worthy gift.
Book Gathers Boundary Waters Writing
A new book — The Firegrate Review: A Canoe Country Chapbook — published by the wilderness advocacy group Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, gathers the BWCA experiences of 19 writers in a collection of stories, essays, and poems.
Book Review: A Modern-Day Voyageur Family
Paddling the 3,000 Mile Fur Trade Canoe Route Across the U.S. and Canada By Timothy J. Kent Published by Silver Fox Enterprises (2009, 760 pages, hardcover + DVD with 370 color …
Book Review: Our Neck of the Woods
As essay collections go, Our Neck of the Woods is more of a confessional than a nature tale. Up and down the state, and via every outdoor pastime (fishing, hunting, skiing, canoeing, camping), writers confess to a love of Minnesota …
Shirley Peruniak Named to Order of Ontario
Shirley Peruniak, a park naturalist known as “the heart and soul” of Quetico Provincial Park, is being named to the Order of Ontario, the most prestigious honor awarded by the province.
Book Review: Our Neck of the Woods
Edited by Daniel J. Philippon Published by the University of Minnesota Press (2009, 277 pages, $19.95 Softcover) Reviewed by Alissa Johnson “Dense woods or mountain valleys make me nervous. After once …
McGuffins Release Quetico: Into the Wild
The celebration of Quetico Provincial Park’s 100th Anniversary continues … in book form! Renowned nature photographers Gary and Joanie McGuffin have produced Quetico: Into the Wild after nearly three years of photographic and paddle-and-portage effort.
Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters Reviewed
Betty vos Hemstad’s new book “Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hking Through the Seasons” is more than just a lovely coffee table book, according to one reviewer who found the book to be “an invaluable resource.”
Book Review: Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range
By Aaron Brown Published by Red Step Press (2008, 239 pages, $16.95 Softcover) Reviewed by Alissa Johnson Maybe you’ve done it, too. You know—driven right by Mine View in the Sky …
Summer 2009 Issue of Wilderness News
The Summer 2009 issue of Wilderness News, the sister publication of Wilderness News Online is available now. Read highlights and download your copy today.
New Book Celebrates 100 Years of Quetico
Thunder Bay author Jon Nelson has published a new book celebrating the people and history of Quetico Provincial Park.
Island Life Author to Speak at Voyageurs
Ted Gostomski, the co-author of Island Life: An Isle Royale Nature Guide and a Biologist/Science Writer at the Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service, will speak on Friday at Voyaguers National Park in International Falls.
Book Review: Last Child in the Woods
Today’s kids do not connect with the outdoors or nature because societal changes have taken away the opportunity to do so. National park and wilderness lovers take heed; the implications are significant for child development, but they are also crucial for the long-term protection of natural places.
New Book Spotlights BWCA Wildflowers
Betty Vos Hemstad’s new book spotlights Boundary Waters area wildflowers in a new way. “Wildflowers of the Boundary Waters: Hiking Through the Seasons” depicts northern Minnesota’s wildflowers in various stages of development — from bud, to flower, to seed.
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 …