Video: Atikokan high school students experience ‘rite of passage’ on Quetico trips
For five decades, the groundbreaking program has provided a coming-of-age tradition in the Ontario town.
For five decades, the groundbreaking program has provided a coming-of-age tradition in the Ontario town.
Public comments are currently being accepted on a document to guide the next two decades of the Ontario canoe wilderness.
Anishinaabe people historically worked with the semi-wild horses for winter transportation.
By Kelly Fuller, Voyageurs National Park Association Maintaining visitor services and the full range of recreational opportunities at Voyageurs National Park can be a challenge in this time of federal budget …
Events offer opportunity to learn, ask questions, and offer input to the National Park Service.
Addition of predators would seek to balance moose population and its impacts on the Lake Superior island’s ecosystem.
In the last two issues of Wilderness News, we’ve taken a look at climate change in the northwoods. In this final installment, we look at some of the things people are doing to cope with and address climate change. In the Quetico-Superior Region, climate change is not something looming on the horizon.
Researchers report moose population increases in recent years after a decade of decline.
New video captures beautiful skies and lakes on the Canadian border.
Sam Cook debates the pros and cons of finding out your phone has a signal on a remote wilderness lake.
This summer, thirty years after a pair of trailbuilders first started flagging a hiking route along the ridges overlooking Lake Superior on Minnesota’s North Shore, the Superior Hiking Trail will be finished—mostly. The final section of the trail, connecting it to the Wisconsin border southeast of Duluth, should be completed by Labor Day. Hikers will then be able to travel from that point all the way to the Canadian border on the trail that has been called one of the best in America. But the work is never done. Hundreds of volunteers will continue to put in thousands of hours each year keeping the trail in good condition.
Canadian pleads guilty to illegal motorized intrusion last winter.
The National Park of Minnesota’s north woods celebrates the Park Service’s Centennial. One hundred years ago this August 25th, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Park Service. For the …
IN THIS ISSUE: Climate Change in the Northwoods Part I. Something in the Water: Bent Paddle Brewing of Duluth joins the call to protect the planet’s most precious resource. Voyageurs—A Must Visit National Park: The National Park of Minnesota’s north woods celebrates the Park Service’s Centennial. Mining Update…
The work-in-progress canoe route from Thunder Bay to Manitoba crosses through Quetico country.
Tracks frozen in slush on a wilderness lake have given the first indication that at least a couple wolves are still holding on despite a crashing population and little chance of reproduction.
In a recent article for the Star Tribune, writer Tori McCormick sums it up: “What will it take to get you outdoors and into nature? Can you be persuaded, either through …
At the Quetico Superior Foundation (QSF), our mission is to protect the wilderness character of Minnesota’s Border Lakes Canoe Country and Ontario’s Quetico region. We do that through the publication of …
Help with wilderness management and maintenance – and spend a few months living in canoe country.
Busy park depends on Americans paddling across the international border.