John S. Pillsbury, Jr. Remembers NWNL’s Ile de Bord
John S. Pillsbury, Jr. died on March 28th at the age of 92. We’ll remember John as the former chief executive of a life insurance company, a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate, a …
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Isle Royale; 65 Years Later
By Charlie Mahler, Wilderness News Contributor In a brewing controversy reminiscent of those surrounding the removal of cabins and resorts in the Boundary Waters Wilderness and Voyageurs National Park, holders …
Wilderness News Summer 2005
The Summer 2005 issue of Wilderness News is online and in the mail. Download a PDF here > Highlights: Woodland Caribou Provincial Park ~ …
Evidence Suggests Humans Inhabited the Superior Quetico Region 10,000 Years Ago
By David Woodward, Archaeologist, Superior National Forest, USDA Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota Northeastern Minnesota today is a cultural landscape, a rich land that has been owned, …
Wilderness News Fall/Winter 2004
The Fall/Winter 2004 issue of Wilderness News is in the mail and online, download a PDF here > Highlights: Natural Fire Management in …
Don Fraser – Still Standing Up for Wilderness
by Diane Rose, Wilderness News Contributor After 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Minneapolis native Don Fraser was poised in 1978 to move on to the Senate. Politics were …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …