On a grey, wet day last autumn, a disparate group of citizens gathered beneath a shelter at a public park in Melon WI. You know somebody, ...

Fifteen days, 3,400 miles. All three of these United States along the big lake, no Canada. 340 120mm exposures with the Mamiya, 27 preciou...

(See also, The Kingston Plains Revisited -- In Perfect Light ) Unlike copper or iron, timber is a renewable resource. Modern forest m...

You’re right, this isn’t Thursday. But by then I’ll be hard by the lake in territory that’s as remote as any along the south shore, ma...

The great northern wilderness comes stuffed with wildlife of all sorts or it wouldn’t be wilderness. From the notable bear, wolf and couga...

Middle of April on the Superior Basin is only nominally spring, the average high temperature being all of about 46°. March was unusually w...

I’ve fished at or just up from the mouth of the Presque Isle River into Superior for a long time. Near to 40 years, I figure. That’s fair ...

We boarded the legendary California Zephyr at Union Station in Chicago . Took a sleeper car and headed west, with Heather a reasonable ap...