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	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wilderness Act of 1964 made the BWCA legal wilderness as a unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System, while the 1978 BWCA Act established the Boundary Waters regulations much as they are today with motors allowed only on a few large entry point lakes.
		The plants and animals of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area are representative of the boreal forest biome, and their ranges continue into southern Canada and the rest of the Great Lakes region.
		The Boundary Waters is within the range of the largest population of wolves in the continental United States, as well as an unknown number of Canada lynx.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boundary_Waters_Canoe_Area_Wilderness (1298 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Boundary Waters Canoeing Boundary Waters Permit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Voyageur North Outfitters is in Ely, the gateway to the Boundary Waters.
		The unofficial mascot of the Boundary Waters is the common loon, whose spooky laughter sends chills down your spine when heard in the still of the evening.
		The Boundary Waters is home to a significant number of timber wolves, the last large packs in the lower 48 states.
	www.vnorth.com /discover.html (571 words)

	Friends - Wilderness Act of 1978
		The areas generally depicted as wilderness on the map entitled “Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Boundary Waters Canoe Area Mining Protection Area” dated September 1978, comprising approximately one million and seventy-five thousand five hundred acres, are hereby designated as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (hereinafter referred to as the “wilderness").
		The map of the wilderness shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Supervisor of the Superior National Forest and of the Chief, United States Forest Service.
		Nothing in this Act of the Wilderness Act shall be construed to prohibit the maintenance of the Prairie Portage Dam (on the international boundary chain between Birch and Basswood Lakes), and the Secretary is authorized to perform such maintenance work as may be required to keep that dam functional at its present height and width.
	www.friends-bwca.org /aboutus/1978.html (3546 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Vacation Ely Minnesota BWCA
		This Minnesota resort is located in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and offers some of the best canoeing, cross country skiing and most unspoiled wilderness in the world.
		Northern Minnesota is home to the famous Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness the largest canoeing wilderness in the United States.
		The BWCA - Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northeastern Minnesota and the Quetico Provincial Park of Ontario, Canada consists of more than two million acres of International border lakes that are interconnect by portages, and canoe trails, which Voyageurs crossed hundreds of years ago.
	grandelylodge.com /editorials/bwcaw.html (521 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
		We often think of wilderness as a place for people, as areas to renew and refresh the soul.
		However, wilderness also protects watersheds, serves as critical habitat for threatened and endangered wildlife, improves air quality, and maintains biological diversity.
		With over 200,000 people visiting per year, it is one of the most heavily used wilderness areas in the country.
	www.bwcaw.org (1163 words)

	HR-3297 Friends of the Boundary Waters Factsheets
		Wilderness conservation organizations successfully asked the federal courts to force compliance with the law, and the portages —while still open to nonmotorized traffic— were closed to motor vehicles in 1992.
		Oberstar's bill would increase the motorized use of the wilderness from 24% of the water surface area to 38%, a dramatic increase for an area that is already the most motorized wilderness in the nation.
		The Council would block public participation with the Forest Service on BWCAW matters, deny representation on the Council to the general public and anyone outside of Minnesota, and be dominated by two local state legislators, both of whom recently testified of their support for motorboat and snowmobile use far beyond what Oberstar currently proposes.
	www.mnforsustain.org /bwca_hr3297_friends_factsheets.htm (843 words)

	Boundary Waters @ National Geographic Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Canoe versus motor still churns today, and in the interest of ensuring domestic tranquillity, motors are allowed on a few of the wilderness area's lakes.
		Perhaps it is the passing of a flock of wild geese in the spring, perhaps the sound of running water, or the smell of thawing earth that brings the transformation.
		Quetico Provincial Park is the Canadian component of the Boundary Waters region, a 1.2-million-acre (400,000 hectares) wilderness in Ontario first set aside in 1909 to protect its moose population.
	magma.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0306/feature2 (1320 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness / BWCAW and Quetico Provincial Park wilderness canoe camping trips and fishing ...
		Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness / BWCAW and Quetico Provincial Park wilderness canoe camping trips and fishing resort lodging at La Tourell's Resort and Outfitters on Moose Lake north of Ely MN near the Canadian border.
		Ely, in fact, is known as "The Canoe Capital of the World." Here you are able to experience the beauty of these glacial carved lakes and pine-covered forests just as the French Voyageurs did hundreds of years ago.
		This upgrade is a favorite choice of those who wish to tour a large part of the canoe country with the least amount of effort, as well as for the serious anglers who wish to get into some of the more remote fishing hot spots.
	www.fishbwca.com /canoe.html (799 words)

	BWCAW inventory & evaluation - Division of Lands & Minerals: Minnesota DNR
		The state land was there before the wilderness area was designated.
		However, since the BWCAW founding, the School Trust land within the Boundary Waters has not been earning money for the Trust, as specified in Minnesota law.
		During the first quarter of 2001, researchers at UMD will complete their initial research and inventory of the state land in the BWCAW, and establish land type classifications on which the value estimate will be based.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /lands_minerals/bwcaw.html (712 words)

	Wilderness.net
		The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) is a unique natural area located in the northern third of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota.
		The BWCAW's northern border is contiguous with Canada's Quetico Provincial Park, also managed as a wilderness area, and together they form a core wilderness area of approximately two million acres.
		This type of experience is rare within the continental United States and the BWCAW is the only large lake land wilderness in the National Wilderness Preservation System The BWCAW allows visitors to canoe, portage and camp in the spirit of the French Voyageurs of 200 years ago.
	www.wilderness.net /index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=70 (582 words)

	BWCA, Quetico Outfitting and International Kayak Trips, Boundary Waters Catalog from Piragis Northwoods Company in Ely, ...
		The wilderness waterways and portage trails have been used for literally thousands of years, and visitors to Canoe Country may still see reminders of those who have travelled there in an earlier time.
		More common in the wilderness are sites of Indian rock paintings that may be several hundred years old, although the age, the artists, and the purpose of the pictographs are yet unknown.
		Within the boundaries of Quetico Provincial Park (on the Canadian side of the border) and the BWCA Wilderness (U.S.) are nearly 2,000 lakes that are linked by rivers, creeks, and portages to form hundreds of miles of wilderness routes - routes that are available only to paddlers.
	www.piragis.com /outfitting/aboutbwca.html (1337 words)

	Cross the Boundary to an Angler's Eden - Fishing in Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness , Minnesota
		The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and adjoining Quetico Provincial Park, 1 million acres in sum, surround the Minnesota-Ontario border with an ostensibly motor-free wilderness where the distance you go rests entirely on your shoulder's fortitude to paddle and portage.
		The BWCAW's open season for canoeing coincides with open water from about mid-April through October (limited permits are available May 1 to September 30 for particular entry points); the Quetico's season goes from mid-May to mid-September (specific dates vary at the park's five entry points).
		A $12 per party cost per trip into the BWCAW and camping fees of just $10 per trip per adult are a small price to pay for access to smallmouth bass that savage surface lures and for campsites on back-country lakes that overlook rocky islands and mirror reflections far from civilization.
	www.fieldandstream.com /fieldstream/wheretogo/tripsearch/article/0,13440,652199,00.html (394 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Sigurd Olson, Izaak Walton League of America
		The final result, Public Law 95-495 of 1978, the Boundary Waters Wilderness Act, is signed into law on October 21, 1978 by President Jimmy Carter.
		Now the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the canoe country is brought nearer to full compliance with the 1964 Wilderness Act.
		During a large 1971 Washington DC conference on wilderness, his was a lone voice in support of setting aside less than pristine lands as wilderness, while the rest of the conservation community vocally abhorred the idea.
	webpages.charter.net /duluthikes/ike_bwcaw/bw_ikes.htm (1259 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area, BWCA, History and introductory information
		The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (often called the BWCA or BWCAW or Boundary Waters) is known as a canoeist's paradise, although it offers opportunities for kayaking, hiking, cross country skiing and dog sledding as well.
		The area is protected with a permit quota system which limits the number of groups entering the wilderness.
		Consider the risk of running rapids in a Wilderness Area where your only rescue may be a day-long paddle out, then an hour ride to the hospital in the car.
	bwcaonline.com /about/faqs.htm (1733 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		By the definition of wilderness in the 1964 Wilderness Act as “an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain,” the management of the Boundary Waters tries to come as close as possible to this ideal.
		The Boundary Waters was first established as a protected wilderness with the 1978 BWCA Wilderness Act, altering the previous course of peripheral development in the area.
		To hear the arguments of a more moderate community organization “defending the public’s right to access to the BWCAW” who are in favor of motorization of certain parts of the wilderness, visit the website of the Conservationists With Common Sense at http://www.cwcs.org.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /users/02/hyser/bwca.html (829 words)

	Tuscarora Lodge and Canoe Outfitters, Gunflint Trail, Grand Marais, Minnesota, cabins, lodging, fishing, camping
		Come explore the scenic wilderness of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) of Minnesota or Quetico Provincial Park of Canada.
		We are located in the heart of Canoe Country, 47 miles northwest of Grand Marais, Minnesota on the Gunflint Trail.
		Tuscarora is in the heart of the Superior National Forest and at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
	www.tuscaroracanoe.com (333 words)

	Boundary Waters Outfitters - 2006 BWCA Canoe Trips from Ely, Minnesota
		Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - BWCA of Minnesota
		Canoe trip fishing in the Boundary Waters centers around smallmouth bass, northern pike, and walleye.
		We are looking forward to assisting your canoe trip with our knowledge of the Boundary Waters, our top quality equipment, and convenient BWCA outfitters services.
	www.boundarywaters.com (493 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - Ely, Minnesota, USA - BootsnAll.com
		Although well known in Minnesota and Ontario, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is virtually unheard of outside of the midwest.
		The outfitter you decide to go with usually depends on where in the Boundary Waters you are entering and exiting - the further away the outfitter, the more they have to drive to drop off the canoes, the more expensive it is going to be for you.
		In the Boundary Waters, remember that you are in the woods and chances are you will see a number of animals including deer, moose, fl bears, beavers, eagles, otters, loons, timberwolves, raccoons and squirrels.
	www.bootsnall.com /namericatravelguides/oct04bwca.shtml (1428 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness at Epinions.com
		The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW)has been an important part of Minnesota culture for hundreds of years.
		North to the Gunflint Trail I have not been back to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for many years, but I trust it has been well preserved and is still the same incredibly beautiful place I remember so well.
		This was my first visit to the Boundary Waters and it was much more rewarding than I could ever imagine.
	www.epinions.com /park-Parks-All-Boundary_Waters_Canoe_Area_Wilderness/display_~reviews (745 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Outfitters Voyageur, a Complete Canoe Outfitter
		A canoe camping trip in the Boundary Waters or Quetico Park is a unique opportunity for a vacation of a lifetime.
		But if you are looking for a wilderness canoe camping adventure, then this is the place.
		As rewarding and satisfying a canoe trip is, we know not all of you will choose to come this summer.
	www.canoeit.com /outfitting.cfm (574 words)

	Dogsledding - Ely, Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (B.W.C.A.W.) with Run Silent Dog Sled Trips.
		Contact Us Ely, MN is located in the heart of the Superior National Forest, north of the Laurentian Divide, and is the primary entrance to the BWCA Wilderness.
		Various forms of wildlife are seen frequently while on a wilderness adventure in the boundary waters.
		This area is known for its 10,000 lakes, pure water, pollution-free air and almost non-existent crime.
	www.runsilent.com /backyard.html (312 words)

	Caffrey Travel: Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mike carried the canoe using the yoke (incidentally it's a Kevlar canoe (a fine canvas-like fabric that is soaked (?) with some sort of resin and left to harden.
		They had confused their location and were about to pack all their gear, and their canoe on a long portage, which would have dumped them out on the road back t town.
		They are fed right in the area where you can view them - hence that's why they were hanging around the area (apparently their next meal was to be on Saturday), and the center offers the public a special "presentation viewing" where you can watch them devour practically a whole moose.
	home.comcast.net /~caff.j/travel/boundarywaters.html (6536 words)

	Boundary Waters Canoe Area Guide and Outfitter, Fishing Trips
		We offer three superb wilderness base camp fishing trips for those people who want to spend their time fishing instead of paddling and portaging.
		These are also ideal trips for those who are new to the wilderness and want a base camp trip or two before traveling into the interior regions of the wilderness.
		The area recommended for your Base Camp is quite sheltered from the wind; and with the fast launch service you should have camp set up and be fishing your first day.
	www.bwcaoutfitters.com /outdooradv/fishing_trips.html (462 words)

	Amazon.com: Boundary Waters Canoe Area: The Eastern Region (Wilderness Press Trail Guide Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Now in a thoroughly updated and revised sixth edition, Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Western Region continues to be the definitive guide for outdoor enthusiasts seeking to enjoy a land of beautiful landscapes and wildlife.
		Veteran travel writer and outdoorsman Robert Beymer provides details on 27 entry points in the western part of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and includes important information on the length of time needed to complete each trip, distances and difficulty of each trip, number of lakes, rivers and portages encountered; and the maps required.
		Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Western Region is enhanced with a four-color pullout map and is a "must" for canoeists, anglers, vacationers, and hunters seeking to enjoy what this unique and remarkable country have to offer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0899971245?v=glance (1230 words)

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