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Book Synopsis Gunflint Falling by : Cary J. Griffith
Download or read book Gunflint Falling written by Cary J. Griffith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness’s epochal weather disaster On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region’s history. Originating over the Dakotas, the midsummer windstorm developed amid unusually high heat and water-saturated forests and moved steadily east, bearing down on Fargo, North Dakota, and damaging land as it crossed the Minnesota border. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event—from first-time visitors to the north woods to returning paddlers to Forest Service Rangers. The pre-dawn forecasts from the National Weather Service in Duluth for that Sunday of the holiday weekend predicted the day would be “warm and humid. Partly sunny with a thirty percent chance of thunderstorms.” But as the afternoon and evening settled over the Boundary Waters, the first eyewitness accounts began to tell a dramatic and terrifying story. Five friends camping on Lake Polly watched in wonder as the sky turned green and the winds began to whip. They scrambled to pull canoes on shore and secure tarps when a tree snapped and struck one of them in the head, rendering her unconscious. Three women enjoying their last day of a camping trip near the end of the Gunflint Trail took shelter in their tent as winds increased. Water drenched the nylon walls as trees crashed around them, one flattening the tent and pinning a woman beneath its weight. A family vacationing at their cabin dodged falling trees and strained against straight-line winds as they sprinted from the cabin to the safest place they knew: a crawl space underneath it. They watched in awe as trees snapped and toppled, their twisted root balls torn out of the water-logged earth—as they prayed their cabin would hold. By the time the storm began to subside, falling trees had injured approximately sixty people, and most needed to be medevacked to safety. Amazingly, no one died. The historic storm laid down timber that would later blaze in the Ham Lake fire of 2007, ultimately reshaping the region’s forests in ways we have yet to fully understand.
Book Synopsis Hudson Bay Bound by : Natalie Warren
Download or read book Hudson Bay Bound written by Natalie Warren and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay Unrelenting winds, carnivorous polar bears, snake nests, sweltering heat, and constant hunger. Paddling from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay, following the 2,000-mile route made famous by Eric Sevareid in his 1935 classic Canoeing with the Cree, Natalie Warren and Ann Raiho faced unexpected trials, some harrowing, some simply odd. But for the two friends—the first women to make this expedition—there was one timeless challenge: the occasional pitfalls that test character and friendship. Warren’s spellbinding account retraces the women’s journey from inspiration to Arctic waters, giving readers an insider view from the practicalities of planning a three-month canoe expedition to the successful accomplishment of the adventure of a lifetime. Along the route we meet the people who live and work on the waterways, including denizens of a resort who supply much-needed sustenance; a solitary resident in the wilderness who helps plug a leak; and the people of the Cree First Nation at Norway House, where the canoeists acquire a furry companion. Describing the tensions that erupt between the women (who at one point communicate with each other only by note) and the natural and human-made phenomena they encounter—from islands of trash to waterfalls and a wolf pack—Warren brings us into her experience, and we join these modern women (and their dog) as they recreate this historic trip, including the pleasures and perils, the sexism, the social and environmental implications, and the enduring wonder of the wilderness.
Download or read book Dead Catch written by Cary J. Griffith and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murdered conservation officer and a multi-million-dollar poaching business—how are they connected to Sam Rivers’ childhood friend? Holden Riggins is an expert outdoorsman and a known poacher. He’s made a small fortune by exploiting nature’s bounty. So it’s no surprise when two conservation officers (COs) from the Department of Natural Resources come upon Holden’s fishing boat, anchored beside an illegal walleye net. What is a surprise, though, is Holden’s condition: nearly frozen to death on the bottom of his boat. That’s not the COs’ most shocking discovery. Twisted and tangled within the twines of another nearby net is the dead body of their missing colleague. After the COs save Holden from the icy grip of hypothermia, the suspected murderer refuses to answer questions. The only person he’ll speak with is Sam Rivers, a man he last saw when they were 12 years old. Since then, Holden has become a known scofflaw and ex-con, using wilderness and everything in it for his ill-gotten gains. Sam has become a special agent for the US Fish & Wildlife Service, hunting, capturing, and incarcerating criminals—like his childhood friend. Throughout the state’s finest walleye lakes, the population of Minnesota’s most prized game fish has been unaccountably dropping. Holden’s net might explain why. Has he resurrected his illegal netting ring, cashing in on the state’s $25-million walleye industry? Did he commit murder to evade the law? One thing is certain: Sam will follow the facts wherever they lead—but is he the one reeling in suspects, or is he just the bait? Natural history writer Cary J. Griffith brings back Sam Rivers for his fourth outdoors-themed mystery—a suspenseful novel filled with fast-paced action.
Download or read book Lost in the Wild written by Cary Griffith and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "True survival odysseys of two wilderness adventurers who entered the woods in search of tranquility-- but found something else entirely"--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Minnesota Waterfalls by : Steve Johnson
Download or read book Minnesota Waterfalls written by Steve Johnson and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to 70 waterfalls with directions and color photographs
Book Synopsis The Gunflint Lodge Cookbook by : Ron Berg
Download or read book The Gunflint Lodge Cookbook written by Ron Berg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers recipes using fresh Minnesota ingredients, along with anecdotes of life at Gunflint Lodge from the 1920s to the present
Book Synopsis Falling Through Clouds by : Damian Fowler
Download or read book Falling Through Clouds written by Damian Fowler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mommy burned up." On a cloudy day in August 2003, Grace and Lily Pearson, 4 and 3, were flying in their uncle's plane along with their mother on their way to their grandpa's birthday party near Lake Superior, when Lily noticed the trees out the window were growing close; so close she could almost touch them. Before the trees tore into the cabin, Grace had the strange sensation of falling through clouds. A story of tragedy, survival, and justice, Damian Fowler's Falling Through Clouds is about a young father's fight for his family in the wake of a plane crash that killed his wife, badly injured his two daughters, and thrust him into a David-vs-Goliath legal confrontation with a multi-billion dollar insurance company. Blindsided when he was sued in federal court by this insurance company, Toby Pearson made it his mission to change aviation insurance law in his home state and nationally, while nursing his daughters to recovery and recreating his own life. Falling Through Clouds charts the dramatic journey of a man who turned a personal tragedy into an important victory for himself, his girls, and many other Americans.
Book Synopsis Geology of Minnesota by : Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota
Download or read book Geology of Minnesota written by Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book 1872-[1901] The Geology of Minnesota written by Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Ontario. Department of Mines and Northern Affairs
Download or read book Annual Report written by Ontario. Department of Mines and Northern Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Ontario Department of Mines written by Ontario. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report written by Ontario. Dept. of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report by : Ontario. Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs
Download or read book Annual Report written by Ontario. Dept. of Mines and Northern Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Mines written by Ontario. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report written by Ontario. Department of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lighthouse Road written by Peter Geye and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wilds of early-twentieth-century Duluth, Minnesota, the orphan son of a immigrant woman tries to build a life for himself and the woman he loves.