The Pioneer Press sent a reporter with little camping experience on a recent trail-clearing trip to get a taste of the ...

The Wood Lake wildfire continues to burn in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, with officials saying it's around 25% ...

Lee E. Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, explained that the park lies near the ...

The closure was put in place due to a fire at Wood Lake caused by dry conditions. According to InciWeb, the fire has grown to ...

The Superior National Forest is working on a fire on Wood Lake in Fall Lake Township within the BWCA in Minnesota.

Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second ... "With the detailed maps we provide, you should be able to get from point A to point B with ...

Officials are monitoring a wildfire burning on an island in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The fire was spotted Tuesday morning on an island on Wood Lake, which ...

Tropical Storm Gordon is weakening due to strong winds and unfavorable conditions, with its storm center separated from the ...

This Wednesday, September 11, twenty- seven 7th graders and twenty-nine 6th graders at Cook County Public School participated ...

about 3 to 5 acres in size, discovered Tuesday on an island in Wood Lake northeast of Ely, Minn., in the 1-million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. (Superior National Forest) ...

The fire began last week and has grown to 27 acres. It is under investigation and believed to have been caused by human ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...