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February 22, 2005

Isle Royale

Isle Royale National Park
	Isle Royale National Park is truly made from the best stuff on earth! Created as a National Park in 1931, Isle Royale is a natural preserve, a ecosphere like no other in the continental US. It is a haven for back-packers, boaters, canoers, kayakers, fisherman, biologists, researchers, and anyone looking to see nature at its finest.
		Isle Royale Loon Researcher's Hurting Loons "Canoe's may be hurting loons at Isle Royale?" Is this guy serious? As a person with a passion for the outdoors and nature, I cannot sit idle and let these "Loon Researchers" try to falsely sway public opinion. Let's try to set the record straight on the loon research practices and see who has more of a negative impact, the boaters, canoeists and hikers or loon researchers? Read More...

Isle Royale Boaters Association Appeal Denied! 5/24/03 Daily Mining Gazette Fed court says Isle Royale management plant legal.
Isle Royale appeal: Boaters say they’re being run off. Park service brief due in December

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	Wolves and Moose Winter Study Report for Isle Royale National Park Winter Study 2002. Take a look into the longest running preditor-pray study on earth.	Isle Royale Facts: 571,790 acres (231,575 hectares), comprising about 200 islands, in Lake Superior, NW Mich.; est. 1940. Isle Royale, 210 sq mi (544 sq km), is the largest island in Lake Superior; Greenstone Ridge extends along its entire length. Glaciated, the island has many lakes, streams, and inlets and remains a roadless, forested wilderness. Its abundant wildlife includes beaver, fox, moose, timber wolves, and many birds. The French, lured by the fur trade, named the island in 1671. Isle Royale became U.S. territory in 1783 and was ceded to the United States by the Chippewa in 1843. It was mined for copper from 1843 to 1899; large areas of forest were burned to expose the ore and to build settlements. In the early 1900s the island was a popular vacation retreat.
	Watching Wolves On a Wild Ride By Les Line Photographs by Rolf Peterson For 25 winters, researcher Rolf Peterson has tracked the turbulent twists and turns in the lives of Isle Royale's top predators and preys
ABCNEWS.com Oct. 28, 1999 — Predator and prey. The diner and dinner. Ecologists long considered it a fairly straightforward relationship. Populations vary, depending how many predators and prey are around, and how successful each is at staying alive. But 40 years’ worth of data on the wolves of Isle Royale in Michigan reveals something far more complex.
"Major wolf die-off recorded on Isle Royale" March 6, 1998 Web posted at: 7:11 p.m. EST (0011 GMT) More than half of timber wolves that were present on the Lake Superior island park last year have died
Royal Royale" by Fred Bieti from "Mail Call" in the January 2001 issue of Lakeland Boating "Presidential Land Grab", an editorial from the January 18, 2000, edition of the Detroit News that observes, "Too much federal money, for instance, has prompted the National Park Service at Isle Royale, a ruggedly beautiful island in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to resort to draconian methods to discourage visitors — defeating the very purpose of national parks." News article from the Daily Mining Gazette, October 20, 1999, exposes the intention of the NPS to use zoning as the precursor for converting areas to wilderness. "Who Owns the Park?", an editorial from the September 22, 1999, edition of the Detroit News that states, "Even the park authorities do not dispute that they have allowed some existing docks and campsites to fall into disrepair." "What's Going On at Isle Royale?", an editorial from the May 24, 1999, edition of the Detroit News that concludes, "Isle Royale park authorities should not unduly restrict access of boaters and other users to the island in order to preserve it in a pristine state." "Lose the Lake's Largest Island?" March 1999 issue of Lake Superior Magazine: "Incredibly, in the last four years, the Isle Royale so many of us have known has begun to die. Not from inattention, but from true bureaucratic zeal …" "Isle Royale Land Grab", an editorial from the November 20, 1998, edition of the Detroit News that closes with the warning, "But Michigan's congressmen ought to be concerned that the park service may be avidly looking for ways to limit the ability of citizens to enjoy a publicly owned natural treasure." "USFS Land & Power Grab", a response by Dr. Peter Carmody to an article published in the January, 2000, issue of Michigan Snowmobile News "Shame on the Gazette and Park Service", a letter to the editor of the Daily Mining Gazette on their coverage of the proposed GMP in September 1998 Resolution by the Grand Marais Yacht Club supporting the IRBA and its efforts to protect boaters rights at the Isle Royale National Park Letter of support from Western Lake Superior Trollers Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Management Plan by the Bayfield Yacht Club Letter from the Rainy Lake Sportfishing Club opposing the closing of bays and coves



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