The BWCAW is a place known and loved by many. The connection that many people feel to the waters and forests of this Border Lakes wilderness help to make it the perfect place to help us contemplate the long-term relationships among people and fire in the Great Lakes Region, and how notions of Wilderness as […]
Sam, will share the story that leads to his writing “Following My Spirit Home”, his stories on Ojibwe Culture, Nature Conservation, storytelling, and painting. Sam Zimmerman began to participate in juried and solo exhibitions in 2000 after immediately receiving his BFA in Studio Art from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His painting became a part-time […]
Timothy Cochrane is the author of A Good Boat Speaks for Itself, Minong – The Good Place: Ojibwe and Isle Royale, and Gichi Bitobig, Grand Maris. He has worked as a fire lookout, backcountry ranger, historical, anthropologist, and superintendent for the National Park Service in Minnesota, Alaska, and at Isle Royales, Michigan. Tim has had […]
It has been 21 years since Lonnie Dupre and John Hoelscher completed the first and only circumnavigation of Greenland; a 6,500-mile journey all non-motorized by dog team and kayak. In 2022 Dupre went back to NW Greenland to document through film the Polar Inuit culture. Traveling from village to village by dog team, Dupre re-connected […]