Product Description
Our Wounded Wilderness:
The Great Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Storm
By the Storm Survivors and the Storm Clean-up Crews
Edited by Jim Cordes
Our Wounded Wilderness is a record of the BWCAW wind and rainstorm, its evacuations, survival stories, search and rescue phase and future told by the survivors and others who love the wilderness.
The Book Includes:
250 photos and maps
Stories from 47 parties caught in the storm
Personal accounts from search and rescue crews
Affect of the storm on ecology of the blowdown area
Account of the record devastating rainstorm
The role of the Forest Service, DNR, and public officials on the event
Potential of fires in the BWCAW
181 Pages