There's a saying around here: from big water comes big ideas. For twenty years, the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation (NPLSF) has been proving it true — funding the projects, mobilizing the volunteers, and telling the stories that keep our five national parks thriving along the greatest of the Great Lakes. Founding board member Carol Brady was there when it all came together, and she hasn't slowed down since. "We had a couple of years of little meetings here and ther

For 20 years, the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation (NPLSF) has championed one of the most extraordinary freshwater ecosystems on Earth. Lake Superior holds 10% of the world’s surface freshwater—more than all the other Great Lakes combined—touching three U.S. states and one Canadian province. Stewardship of this globally significant ecosystem is our shared responsibility. As the official philanthropic partner of the lake’s five extraordinary national parks, NPLSF has

By Tim Cochrane Duchess of Oldenburg apple lithograph For over five millennia people have made their way to Isle Royale. Evidence of that presence is sometimes subtle and sometimes it is like the bow of the packet freighter America  looming out of the depths of Lake Superior. Whether obvious or not, each sign of human activity often can tell a remarkable story such as the rewilding Island Mine road turned into a trail or the toy left behind at the Hay Bay fishery. But evidenc