In this Tuesday, July 6, 1999 file photo, a home on the south shore of Gunflint Lake in northeastern Minnesota is framed by the devastation caused by a storm that passed through the Boundary Waters ...

As I get out of my tent, I am greeted by a loon call and blinded by the glare of the sun off a completely still northern Minnesota lake. The smell of pines and the feeling of seclusion from phones, ...

Dan Cohen is a writer and photographer from Independence, Iowa, and has led Iowa youth and adults on many wilderness trips. Iowans have been awakened to the threats facing our most treasured ...