Much of the Great Lakes region, known for its freezing winter temperatures, icy lakes and snow-covered forests, appeared bare nearly all winter. Average ice cover is at all-time lows for this time of year. Snowfall continues to lag far behind normal. And long-term forecasts call for further unseasonal temperatures to rise. From January to early… Read More »
RACINE, Wisconsin (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been monitoring a remote Lake Superior island’s fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but they had to cut short a seven-week survey planned for this season after just two weeks. The ski plane on which they were studying the wolves uses the frozen lake as… Read More »
The spectacular view of the Smoking Hills is one of the highlights of a Northwest Passage trip – Karsten Bidstrup/Hurtigruten From the rugged Maritime Provinces in the north to Prince Edward Island and Labrador, to the historic cities of Montreal and Quebec on the St Lawrence Sea Route, to Toronto and the Great Lakes, and… Read More »