One night, my sled dogs and I were gliding through a birch forest in Wisconsin when a black wolf emerged from the trees and ...

Anyone who knows anything about boats—specifically canoes or kayaks—knows the name Old Town. The watercraft brand has been around since the 1800s, when it first started churning out traditional wood ...

"It’s on You" chronicles how corporations and behavioral economists pushed for huge, systemic problems to be fixed by ...

Remote fisheries once thrived on Isle Royale. But what happens after the last fishermen move away and their camps fall into ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures—like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry—were “illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so ...

Known as the state tree of New Hampshire, the paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is commonly referred to as a ‘poor man’s fire starter.’ The trees’ characteristic white papery bark is impossible to miss ...

Minnesota wild rice bill heard March 10 would name psín and manoomin and recognize wild rice’s right to exist, citing treaty ...

From March 16 to 20, families are invited to journey back to Wendake in 1649 during Adventures in Time Travel at Sainte-Marie ...

MADISON (WKOW) — Beneath the surface of Lake Mendota lies a record of the ancient communities that called this land home before us. An effort that started four years ago as an underwater survey is now ...

ELY, Minn. — Editor’s note: This story originally aired in October of 2018. At this year’s Ely Marathon, both male and female runners set records in the canoe portaging division. Drew Boysen of Iowa ...

Captain John Voss, left, aboard the Tilikum in Samoa. “So diminutive,” one Australian reporter wrote of the boat, “one wondered and admired the pluck, perseverance and skill displayed in bringing her ...