As far back as the 1930’s, airplanes have flown into the remote reaches of Quetico, patrolling for poachers, delivering supplies to rangers, fighting forest fires… Jill Legault from Quetico Provincial Park shares this look back to the ‘bush planes’ and intrepid pilots that flew into the border lakes backcountry.
Quetico and Boundary Waters crews come together on the border of the U.S. and Canada to reduce hazards on portage and facilitate wilderness visitors.
Wilderness rangers recently traveled through Quetico and Boundary Waters to take measurements of the night skies are, as regional efforts get underway to recognize and preserve its darkness.
Research in Canadian canoe country wilderness seeks to understand species that call it home and may be threatened by deadly fungus.
More than 150 miles of lakes and rivers along the Ontario-Minnesota border are included in Canada’s program for celebrating and protecting its most precious rivers.
Deadline is March 31 to apply to live and work in the Ontario wilderness park at a rustic studio or travel by canoe.
The hardy souls that winter camp in the Boundary Waters and Quetico need to be as conscious of wilderness rules as their summer counterparts. Their reward: the freedom to explore corners of the wilderness that are inaccessible in any other season…
Anyone with knowledge of a small lake in Quetico is invited to offer input on proposal to rename it after Miron “Bud” Heinselman, who advanced scientific knowledge of the boreal forest and pushed for its protection.
Autumn is in full swing across the Boundary Waters, Quetico, Lake Superior, Isle Royale, Voyageurs National Park and the border lakes ecoregion. We celebrate the fall landscape…
Nature photographer leaves today on year-long expedition in the million-acre canoe country wilderness in Canada.
Cross Quetico Lakes Tour on March 17 will send skiers into the Canadian wilderness park to cross ice-covered lakes often used for canoeing.
The uncommon beauty of winter, photographs from Voyageurs to Lake Superior, Boundary Waters to Quetico, from frozen lake to snow-laden trees…
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.
Researchers report moose population increases in recent years after a decade of decline.
Sam Cook debates the pros and cons of finding out your phone has a signal on a remote wilderness lake.
Canadian pleads guilty to illegal motorized intrusion last winter.
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 …
Busy park depends on Americans paddling across the international border.