The White House Council on Environmental Quality last year identified seven important landscapes for conservation and restoration, naming among others the Hawaiian Islands, Washington’s Puget Sound, the Florida Everglades and a section of the Great Lakes — a 6.3 million-acre stretch of coastal wetlands from Saginaw Bay on southern Lake…
…on ensuring that they are available to youth, college students, and our north woods communities. As part of this focus, we will continue and further develop well-established programs at the Institute that already affirm the value of wild nature, such as LoonWatch, the Timber Wolf Alliance, Apostle Islands School, and…
…real value and I’m excited for next year, to study, to observe and to make the connections. I want to be a force for positive change.” Beth Dooley leads local food kayaking trips through the Apostle Islands for Wilderness Inquiry. She is also the author of several Northern Heartland cookbooks….
…implemented it with comparable success. With nearly twenty years of experience working with large cat conservation and biological research that has led her to work in Australia, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Central America, the Galapagos, and in the Amazon, Ramme now spends most of her time in wildlife research,…
…Six of these areas are in Minnesota: Grand Portage National Monument, Mississippi National Recreation and Resource Area, North Country Trail, St. Croix National Scenic River, Pipestone National Historic Site and Voyageurs National Park. Just over the Wisconsin border is a seventh — the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. For entire article….
…five to thirteen-day Outdoor Orientation trip, which include backpacking on the Superior Hiking Trail in northern Minnesota, sailing through the Apostle Islands, or canoeing in the Boundary Waters. Yes please!” Bannon concludes. College Magazine is the national daily guide to campus life, reporting articles for college students regarding university rankings…
…therapy for the last twenty-four years, and now adults through a mariner training program. “Living on islands, the ocean is ever-present—we do have woods and wild places—but none of them compare to the ocean’s challenges and gifts in my mind,” he said. Claybaugh was born in Wisconsin but moved to…
Business student Niina Baum competed sportsmen’s class at the Apostle Islands Sled Dog Race last weekend. Saturday and Sunday she took her team of six for two twenty-mile runs. She’s been racing huskies for a dozen years. https://youtu.be/Hv5zDbhoVEg…
…colonize islands and later disappear. If wolves are reintroduced would it create an artificial situation that degrades the wilderness value of Isle Royale as a natural outdoor laboratory? Should we then also consider lynx and caribou reintroduction? Ultimately how we want Isle Royale managed for wolves or wilderness qualities will…
…to build yourself up has been really useful for me.” In addition to his Chequamegon Bay plankton and water sampling, Fitzgerald has had the opportunity to work on research projects involving dragonfly larvae collection at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Isle Royale National Park, Grand Portage National Park, the Apostle Islands…
