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 evidence

UpdateS From the Field with Moose Researcher Adam Mortensen By Adam Mortensen My snowmobile stopped, but thankfully, it was not stuck! Part of being a biologist is the constant need to learn new things. Sometimes that means mastering a new statistical analysis or setting up moose collars. In the case of today’s installment of “Moose Browse,” it’s snowmobiling. Despite growing up in Wisconsin, snowmobiling was brand new to me, and I was excited to learn in such a unique way. A

Updates From the Field with Moose Researcher Adam Mortensen By Adam Mortensen Chest Deep: Taylor Velander, a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota – Duluth, in the process of getting collars field ready. Prepping for captures: Moose captures for the joint MNDNR/1854 LCCMR (Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources) funded project began in January, with Grand Portage captures following soon after. The prep work, however, was already in full swing leading