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Book Apostle Islands  A Guide to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore  Wisconsin

Download or read book Apostle Islands A Guide to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Wisconsin written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book This Superior Place

Download or read book This Superior Place written by Dennis McCann and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque little Bayfield on Lake Superior is Wisconsin’s smallest city by population but one of its most popular visitor destinations. This book captures those unique qualities that keep tourists coming back year after year and offers a historically reliable look at the community as it is today and how it came to be. Abundantly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, This Superior Place showcases, as author Dennis McCann writes, “a community where the past was layered with good times and down times, where natural beauty was the one resource that could not be exhausted by the hand of man, and where history is ever present.” Because Bayfield serves as “the gateway to the Apostle Islands,” the book also includes chapters on the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Madeline Island, and the nearby Red Cliff Ojibwe community. It also covers the significant eras in the city’s history: lumbering, quarrying, commercial fishing, and the advent of the orchards visitors see today. It is not a guidebook as such but more of a visual and written tour of the city and the major elements that came together to make it what it is. Colorful stories from the past, written in Dennis McCann’s casual, humorous style, give a sense of the unique characters and events that have shaped this charming city on the lake.

Book Apostle Islands

    Book Details:
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  • Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Apostle Islands written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1988 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a guide to the many facets of the islands. Recounts the history of the area, looks at the inland sea, and describes the geographical features and wildlife of the islands. Discusses what to see and do at the park.

Book Apostle Islands  Souvenir Edition

Download or read book Apostle Islands Souvenir Edition written by and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs of the Apostle Islands that lie off Wisconsin's Bayfield Peninsula, on the south shore of Lake Superior. All of the 22 islands, with the exception of Madeline Island, are part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

Book Apostle Islands National Lakeshore  Wisconsin

Download or read book Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Wisconsin written by Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Wis.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Storied Wilderness

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  • Author : James W. Feldman
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 0295802979
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book A Storied Wilderness written by James W. Feldman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine wilderness has been shaped and reshaped by humans. The people who lived and worked in the Apostles built homes, cleared fields, and cut timber in the island forests. The consequences of human choices made more than a century ago can still be read in today’s wild landscapes. A Storied Wilderness traces the complex history of human interaction with the Apostle Islands. In the 1930s, resource extraction made it seem like the islands’ natural beauty had been lost forever. But as the island forests regenerated, the ways that people used and valued the islands changed - human and natural processes together led to the rewilding of the Apostles. In 1970, the Apostles were included in the national park system and ultimately designated as the Gaylord Nelson Wilderness. How should we understand and value wild places with human pasts? James Feldman argues convincingly that such places provide the opportunity to rethink the human place in nature. The Apostle Islands are an ideal setting for telling the national story of how we came to equate human activity with the loss of wilderness characteristics, when in reality all of our cherished wild places are the products of the complicated interactions between human and natural history. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frECwkA6oHs

Book Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream

Download or read book Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream written by Harold C. Jordahl and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-04-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is a breathtakingly beautiful archipelago of twenty-two islands in Lake Superior, just off the tip of northern Wisconsin. For years, the national park has been a favorite destination for tourists and locals alike, but the remarkable story behind its creation is little known. In Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream, Harold Jordahl, one of the primary advocates for designating the islands as a national park, discloses the full story behind the effort to preserve their natural beauty for posterity. He describes in detail the political and bureaucratic complexities of the national lakeshore campaign, augmented by his own personal recollections and those of such prominent figures as Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and President John F. Kennedy. Writing in collaboration with Annie Booth, Jordahl recounts how activists, legislators, media, local residents, and other players shaped the islands’ future establishment as a national park.

Book Raspberry Island Light Station

Download or read book Raspberry Island Light Station written by David H. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Management Plan

Download or read book General Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewels on the Water

Download or read book Jewels on the Water written by Jeff Rennicke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever large-format full-color book on the human history and natural history of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The text is by Jeff Rennicke, an accomplished outdoor writer who lives in Bayfield, WI, the "gateway to the Apostles." Photographs are by Layne Kennedy, whose assignments have included National Geographic, Smithsonian, and many other publications. The books covers the history of the islands, from native American habitation, voyageurs and French missionaries, to European Americans who made their livings off the islands' forests and fishing, as well as a brief boom in brownstone quarrying. 21 of the 22 islands are now part of the national park system, and in August 2005, dedication ceremonies were held for the Gaylord A. Nelson National Wilderness, in honor of the islands' champion and founder of Earth Day. Foreword is by William Bechtel, late Senator Nelson's chief of staff during the time the islands were visited by John F. Kennedy and subsequently became a national park. The text also covers the unique geography and ecosystems of the islands.

Book Madeline Island   the Chequamegon Region

Download or read book Madeline Island the Chequamegon Region written by John O. Holzhueter and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated reprint of the definitive history of a storied corner of the Upper Great Lakes—Madeline Island and the Chequamegon region on Wisconsin’s Lake Superior. A new foreword by Steve Cotherman, director of the Madeline Island Museum, brings the text of this book up to date on the history of Madeline Island and the Chequamegon region from the days before the missions to present-day tourism. Madeline Island played a significant role in the early history of Wisconsin and was an important outpost in the fur trade. Ojibwe from Wisconsin and surrounding areas view the island as a sacred place. Other Indian Nations, such as the Huron and Ottawa, also trace their history to Madeline Island. Today, Madeline Island and nearby Bayfield are popular tourist destinations, drawing tens of thousands of visitors every summer and throughout the winter.

Book Proposed Apostle Island National Lakeshore  Bayfield and Ashland Counties  Wisconsin

Download or read book Proposed Apostle Island National Lakeshore Bayfield and Ashland Counties Wisconsin written by United States. North Central Field Committee and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: