While Hemimysis is native to the Black and Caspian seas, which don’t freeze over in winter, bloody red shrimp are highly ...

The Nature Conservancy plants 3.2 million tree seedlings in northern Minnesota to support habitat and build a more resilient ...

About 2,500 acres are planned from the Gunflint and Tofte ranger districts, to the Kawishiwi, LaCroix and Laurentian ...

The ecological character of the lake-dotted Quetico Superior region ranges from boreal forest to temperate forest. Marks of the last glaciers can be seen along cliffs and shores—the exposed ...

Invasive species tend to have names that make you cringe. Take spiny water flea, for example—a common invasive in Minnesota, including some Boundary Waters lakes. Now, a new invasive species—bloody ...

To create a more resilient, adaptable forest, The Nature Conservancy, in collaboration with state and federal partners, planted 3.2 million trees in northern Minnesota this year. It was the ...

To create a more resilient, adaptable forest, The Nature Conservancy, in collaboration with state and federal partners, planted 3.2 million trees in northern Minnesota this year. It was the ...

With the July Lightning Incident fires fully contained, the Forest Service has issued a new forest closure order (09-09-00-26-11), replacing the phased wildfire-reopening orders we’d been tracking, ...

President Theodore Roosevelt establishes Superior National Forest in February. Ontario establishes Quetico Forest Reserve in April. U.S. Forest Service’s Arthur Carhart develops the first recreation ...

Quetico Provincial Park says fire suppression units have been removed and the popular Dawson Trail Campground reopens to front-country campers. Starting June 8, the Cache Bay and Prairie Portage ...

All backcountry areas of Quetico Provincial Park are now open, the park said on Facebook, though with advisories in place for burned areas. The park is discouraging travel in the burn area and pointed ...

These days, the pace in the Boundary Waters and Quetico is fairly slow. It’s a place of leisure, by and large, for today’s visitors. But for Ely’s Don Beland and Atikokan’s Joe Meany who raced across ...