Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Eastern Region

Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Eastern Region
Author: Robert Beymer
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0899976115

Find your way into the eastern BWCAW via 28 entry points, accessible near Grand Marais, Minnesota, from the Sawbill and Gunflint trails. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northeastern Minnesota—over a million acres of wilderness on the US-Canada border—is a magnet for visitors seeking to explore some of the most beautiful waterways in the world. With a canoe or kayak, you can paddle its remote lakes, rivers, waterfalls, forests, and trails. Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Eastern Region by Robert Beymer and Louis Dzierzak helps you select the perfect trip for your schedule, ability, and interests. This classic guide—along with its companion volume, Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Western Region—has been the trusted source for more than 40 years on where to go in the BWCAW and its 1,000+ lakes. Now fully updated, it’s the bible to the 1,200 miles of canoe routes and 154 miles of portage trails in the wilderness. The guide describes 28 entry points in the eastern part of the BWCAW—those accessible near Grand Marais, Minnesota, from the Sawbill Trail and the Gunflint Trail. For each entry point, both a short and a long route are described, along with all the information you’ll need to plan a successful trip. Inside you’ll find: Complete trip data, including total distance, time, difficulty, required Fisher maps, and permit and quota requirements Day-by-day details, such as number and difficulty of portages and recommended campsites Fishing recommendations for surrounding lakes and rivers Wise advice on navigation and points of interest Added bonus: “Lake Index for Fishing,” covering the 242 lakes that lie on this book’s described routes

A Wonderful Country

A Wonderful Country
Author: Bill Magie
Publisher: Raven Productions
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780967705781

"When Bill Magie began taking canoe trips in the wild country along the Minnesota-Ontario border, there were places where the lakes were so crowded with logs heading to the mill, that his group put their gear on a horse-drawn wagon to portage to a spot where they could paddle. There were other places where they could travel for two or three weeks and see no except an occasional Indian family. Bill's stories originate from the Canoe Country -- today's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Voyageur National Park, and Quetico Provincial Park. But they are not the dry facts of the past. (Some would argue that there are few facts to be found in these stories!) Instead, they are full of the elements that still draw us to this wilderness area today -- wolf howls, sparkling water, storms, solitude, stillness, adventurous undertakings, relics of bygone days, campfires and camaraderie. Take this book on your next canoe trip, and imagine Bill has joined you, spinning tales of lumberjacks and trappers, surveying the border, flying bush planes when flying at all was a novelty, camping before nylon and plastic and freeze-dried food, hunting and fishing when you succeeded or went hungry. Find stories about the places you visit: Curtain Falls, Prairie Portage, Granite River, Knife Lake, Basswood, Saganaga -- and so many more. And know that the spirit of those who have loved this place lives on as today's paddlers discover what a wonderful country this is"--Front flap.

Troubled Waters

Troubled Waters
Author: Kevin Proescholdt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1995
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness controversy remains today the most volatile, hotly debated Minnesota environmental issue in recent decades. In the 1970's, one crisis after another threatened the area - mining, logging, motorized use - all of which led to a major national congressional battle beginning in 1975. Today controversies continue to swirl around the BWCA Wilderness, our nation's most popular wilderness. Troubled Waters describes the turbulent and controversial conservation history of the BWCA Wilderness, focusing on the explosive struggle from 1975 to 1978 to pass the BWCA Wilderness Act in Congress -- from back cover.

Paddle North

Paddle North
Author: Layne Kennedy
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2010
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780873517782

Explore the Quetico- Boundary Waters with seasoned paddlers-- one a writer, one a photographer--whose work reflects on the spirit of the place, conveying an open invitation to visit an ages-old wilderness.

20 Great BWCA Trips

20 Great BWCA Trips
Author: Van Jordahl
Publisher: Adventure Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
ISBN: 9781591932710

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a natural landscape largely unchanged by human hands. If you haven't seen it, you're missing a great life experience. The 20 trips in this book are designed to give beginners confidence. They also offer features that even experienced canoeists will appreciate, like easier access points and manageable routes that lead to great campsites and impressive scenery. Get ready for a Boundary Waters adventure you'll never forget.

A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time

A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time
Author: Stephen Wilbers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1625841892

Teasing out the history of a place celebrated for timelessness--where countless paddle strokes have disappeared into clear waters--requires a sure and attentive hand. Stephen Wilbers's account reaches back to the glaciers that first carved out the Boundary Waters and to the original inhabitants, as well as to generations of wilderness explorers, both past and present. He does so without losing the personal relationship built through a lifetime of pilgrimages (anchored by almost three decades of trips with his father). This story captures the untold broader narrative of the region, as well as a thousand different details sure to be recognized by fellow pilgrims, like the grinding rhythm of a long portage or the loon call that slips into that last moment before sleep.

A Year in the Wilderness

A Year in the Wilderness
Author: Amy Freeman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017
Genre: Boundary Waters Canoe Area (Minn.)
ISBN: 9781571313669

Since its establishment as a federally protected wilderness in 1964, the Boundary Waters has become one of our nation's most valuable--and most frequently visited--natural treasures. When Amy and Dave Freeman learned of toxic mining proposed within the area's watershed, they decided to take action--by spending a year in the wilderness, and sharing their experience through video, photos, and blogs with an audience of hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens. This book tells thedeeper story of their adventure in northern Minnesota: of loons whistling under a moonrise, of ice booming as it forms and cracks, of a moose and her calf swimming across a misty lake. With the magic--and urgent--message that has rallied an international audience to the campaign to save the Boundary Waters, A Year in the Wilderness is a rousing cry of witness activism, and a stunning tribute to this singularly beautiful region.

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness
Author: Stephen Wilbers
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2012-07-24
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1614236240

Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log continues the story of wilderness canoeing begun in A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, this time offering historical information about black bear attacks on humans, loon calls and behaviors, lightning strikes on the waters, the experience of a woman going into labor while canoeing with her husband, the sighting of spectacular northern lights, and reflections on the wilderness experience. All the while Wilbers reflects on experiences canoeing with his family. As in the first book, quotes from some of Minnesotas well known wilderness authors appear throughout the manuscript.

Lost in the Wild

Lost in the Wild
Author: Cary Griffith
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-10-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0873516826

"True survival odysseys of two wilderness adventurers who entered the woods in search of tranquility-- but found something else entirely"--Page 4 of cover.

The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem

The Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem
Author: Miron L. Heinselman
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1996
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780816628049

Contains fifty pages of information on fires in the area and twenty-nine pages on logging in the area.