Green Canoe and Moose Counts Too: Isle Royale NP
Isle Royale is one of the most remote and least visited national parks in the country — and one of the most scientifically significant. It's home to the world's longest-running predator-prey study, the Wolf-Moose Project, which has tracked the delicate balance between these two species for decades. We were honored to create assets in support of that work, helping to tell a story that sits at the very heart of what wilderness science looks like.
The island also inspired something more personal. Out of our time paddling those cold Superior waters came Green Canoe, a children's book that captures the wonder of Isle Royale through young eyes — because the next generation of park protectors has to fall in love first.
Through the eyes of a child
The island also inspired something more personal. Out of our time paddling those cold Superior waters came Green Canoe, a children's book that captures the wonder of Isle Royale through young eyes — because the next generation of park protectors has to fall in love first.
Where the Birches Bend
It was a magazine assignment — write a piece for National Parks, take some photos, come home. What happened instead was something closer to a conversion.
My brother, my father-in-law, three teenagers, and a kayak each. Two days from Knoxville, a 73-mile ferry across Lake Superior, and six miles of paddling through hypothermia-cold water to a campsite on Caribou Island. Light in the sky past 10 p.m. Warblers. Mergansers. Silence.
Isle Royale got under my skin and never really left. The art, the children's book Green Canoe, the return trips — it all started here.
Read the full story at National Parks Magazine → Where the Birches Bend