Posted: June 29th, 2011 
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Tomorrow is the last day to comment on a Superior National Forest proposal for more mining exploration at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
 A young man dies in the Boundary Waters, leaving family and friends and a sad reminder of what is at stake when we leave civilization’s safety.  My latest project is a new chapbook published through the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, featuring 20 essays, stories and poems about the Boundary Waters.  For those who love traveling the Boundary Waters region by paddle and portage, the new book titled “Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness” from photographer Layne Kennedy and writer Greg Breining from the Minnesota Historical Society Press should be of great interest. I wouldn’t normally engage in such promotion on this site, but I’ve already gladly lent my name to the endeavor, with a short endorsement that appears on the back cover of the book. “In Paddle North, Greg Breining and Layne Kennedy have captured the beauty, solitude, and challenges of canoe country. They bring to the reader the essence of Quetico-Superior wilderness and remind us of why we go there. Contained in these pages are the roaring silence, the wild lakes, the Three excellent recent videos from the Quetico-Superior ecosystem. |
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