Natural History Around Grand Portage

Natural History

• Boundary Waters Wilderness Ecosystem. Miron Heinselman (University of Minnesota Press, 1999)

• The Death and Life of the Great Lakes. Dan Egan (W.W. Norton, 2017)

• North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota's Superior Coast. Chel Anderson, Adelheid Fischer (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)

• Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver. Frances Backhouse (Toronto: ECW Press, 2015)

• Roadside Geology of Minnesota. Richard W. Ojakangas (Mountain Press, 2009)

• Talking Rocks: Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region. Carl Gawboy, Ron Morton. (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

• Talking Sky: Ojibwe Constellations as a Reflection of Life on the Land. Carl Gawboy, Ron Morton (Rockflower Press, LLC, 2014) Stories of the constellations in the night sky of the Ojibwe tell of the stars and the seasons, the Ojibwe traditions, religion, science, and day to day living. Pictographs by the northern peoples connect the sky to the land through stories.

• Spirits Dancing: The Night Sky, Indigenous Knowledge, & Living Connections to the Cosmos. Annette S. Lee, Travis Novitsky (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023)

• Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World. Nancy Langston (Yale University Press 2017)

• The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History. Agnes M. Larson (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

• The Forest for the Trees: How Humans Shaped the North Woods. Jeff Forester (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2004)

• Troubled Waters: The Fight for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc. 1995)

• The Beaver: Its Life and Impact. Dietland Muller-Schwarze (Cornell University Press, 2011)

• Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver. Frances Backhouse (Toronto: ECW Press, 2015)

• The Beaver: Its Life and Impact. Dietland Muller-Schwarze (Cornell University Press, 2011)

• Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. Ben Goldfarb (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018)

• Ben Goldfarb (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018)

• Saving Quetico-Superior: A Land Set Apart. R. Newell Searle (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1979)

 

Fur Trade Archeology

• The Archaeology of the North American Fur Trade. Michael S. Nassaney (University Press of Florida, 2015)

• In Small Things Forgotten. James Deetz (Anchor Books, Random House, 1977, 1996)