Isle Royale National Park

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Address:800 East Lakeshore Dr
Houghton, MI 49931
Phone:906-482-0984
Fax:906-422-8753
Web: www.nps.gov/isro/
Size: 571,790 acres.
Established: Authorized on March 3, 1931. Wilderness designated on October 20, 1976. Designated a Biosphere Reserve in 1980.
Location:In the northwest corner of Lake Superior, accessible only by boat or seaplane. Passenger ferries are available from Houghton or Copper Harbor, Michigan, or from Grand Portage, Minnesota. Seaplane service is available from Houghton, Michigan to Rock Harbor or Windigo on Isle Royale.
Facilities:Campgrounds, picnic area, rest rooms (é), cabin rental, lodging, groceries, restaurant/snacks, boat rental, visitor centers (é), self-guided tour/trail. Park is open to the public from mid-April through October.
Activities:Camping, hiking, swimming, scuba diving, boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, wildlife viewing, sightseeing cruises.
Special Features:This forested island, the largest in Lake Superior, is 45 miles long and 9 miles wide at its widest point, and includes submerged lands which extend 4.5 miles out into the lake. The roadless island is distinguished by its wilderness character, wildlife that includes timberwolves and moose, pre-Columbian copper mines, and historic lighthouses and shipwrecks.

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Estimates of abundance and predation-the population ecology of beaver in Isle Royale National Park. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI.

Revisiting the Role of Aquatic Plants in Beaver Habitat Selection

Isle Royale National Park and Wilderness Area lies roughly 25 miles (40.2 km) offshore of Minnesota in Lake Superior.

Population genetic divergence of Isle Royale Pearl Dace, Margarita margariscus (Cyprinidae)

The first sub-group consisted of 420 moose from Isle Royale National Park (48[degrees]06' N, 88[degrees]30' W; Peterson 1977) located in Lake Superior approximately 30 km from the Ontario, Canada coastline.

Variation in metatarsal morphology among subgroups of North American moose (Aloes alces)

"While I didn't have money to pledge," he says, "I suggested that Isle Royale National Park, because of its remoteness and short construction season, utilize prefabricated buildings that could be designed and constructed by NMU staff members and technology students in the NMU'S lab during the school year and later re-erected on site during the summer months."

Volunteers rebuild Michigan's Isle Royale

One summer, my wife and I were camped at Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, and we rented a canoe to do some paddling on Tobin Harbor.

Family wildlife viewing: watching wildlife can turn a camping trip into a magical experience. (Summer Family Camping guide)

There are always surprises waiting when Rolf Peterson returns to Isle Royale National Park to spend the dead of winter in the company of the world's most famous gray wolves and the moose that are their bread and butter.

Watching Wolves On a Wild Ride - For 25 winners, researcher Rolf Peterson has tracked the turbulent twists and turns in the lives of Isle Royale's top predators and prey

Another 25 wolves inhabit Isle Royale National Park, a Michigan island near the Lake Superior shoreline of Minnesota and Ontario; only 14 wolves were on Isle Royale a year earlier.

Region 3

My grandfather, Ben East, was a hunter, as well as a prime mover in the creation of Isle Royale National Park and several key state parks in Michigan.

A sporting chance

Here, I investigate how the coniferous balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill.) has persisted in spite of continuous browsing by moose (Alces alces L.) in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, a boreal-hardwood mixed-forest system.

Plant-specific response to herbivory: simulated browsing of suppressed balsam fir on Isle Royale

But a food chain in Isle Royale National Park, a 544-square-kilometer island in Lake Superior, doesn't work that way.

Chain of command: wolves help trees thrive

Lynn McClure, senior director at NPCA, in The Detroit News about the Park Service's plans to introduce up to 30 gray wolves in Michigan's Isle Royale National Park over three years.

Echoes

1, join a travelogue with naturalist Barb McKittrick about her visit to Isle Royale National Park a place of isolation and wilderness surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior.

Forest Preserve District of Kane Co