The Lake Superior Project

Series produced by WTIP

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Image by: Stephan Hoglund 

A series of short features looking at the broad range of issues facing one of the world's largest resources: Lake Superior.

Lake Superior holds 10 percent of the world’s fresh water. It is an undeniably huge resource. The lake means different things to different people, whether it's a source of inspiration or income, or a favorite place to recreate or fish. WTIP North Shore Community Radio brings Lake Superior into focus with The Lake Superior Project, a series of 12 stories airing monthly throughout the year. We’ll take a closer look at the culture and history of the Lake Superior region and investigate issues like the impacts of climate change, invasive species, development, and industry as well as explore how people are coming together to protect and preserve the lake for generations to come. This project is funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management Act, by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, in cooperation with Minnesota’s Lake Superior Coastal Program. Hide full description

Lake Superior holds 10 percent of the world’s fresh water. It is an undeniably huge resource. The lake means different things to different people, whether it's a source of inspiration or income, or a favorite place to recreate or fish. WTIP North Shore Community Radio brings Lake Superior into focus with The Lake Superior Project, a series of 12 stories airing monthly throughout the year. We’ll take a closer look at the culture and history of the Lake Superior region and investigate issues like the impacts of climate change, invasive species, development, and industry as well as explore how people are coming together to protect and preserve the lake for generations to come. This project is funded in part by the Coastal Zone Management Act, by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal... Show full description


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Caption: The Voyageur II docked at Rock Harbor, Isle Royale
This edition of the Lake Superior Project takes a look at how commercial fishing on Isle Royale, Michigan, has changed. The remote island about 15 ...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:50
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A team of researchers continue to explore the potential impacts of climate change along the North Shore, as WTIP’s Joe Friedrichs reports in this i...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 10:06
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If ever there was an example of landowners and government agencies taking a negative situation and turning into a positive, a decades-long effort t...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 08:32
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Lake Superior is outrageously huge. That’s understood. But the most challenging aspect when discussing the size of Lake Superior is formatting the...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 07:10
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Crystal Bay is a unique location featuring cliffs, a gravel beach, caves and a creek. It's located near Finland, Minnesota, along the North Shore o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 08:18
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If you get your water from a private well, you may assume the water you're drinking is free of harmful chemicals. But research that began in the 19...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 07:32
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Most local residents know that an area of downtown Grand Marais has a periodic flooding problem. But what may not be well known is the history of t...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
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In late October of 2010, much of North America experienced a huge storm complex, known as an extratropical cyclone. Minnesota experienced the lowes...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 08:17
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The federal government announced in March that Isle Royale's decimated wolf population will get an infusion of new wolves over the next three years...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 08:58
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In 1960, homesteader John Pine left his cabin near Finland, Minnesota, and never returned. The mystery of his disappearance was never solved.

  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 07:42
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Luis Cortes is used to big water. Now in his 40s, the new executive chef at Bluefin Bay Resort spent most of his adult life working at restaurants ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 09:05
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Though loved by some in the Lake Superior region, beavers have been chewing their way into trouble in recent years near downtown Grand Marais and t...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 05:32
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No one heads out into the woods expecting to get lost - and the remote and heavily forested landscape along the North Shore poses unique challenges...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:34
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North House Folk School in Grand Marais is all about showcasing life near Lake Superior and the Boundary Waters. Illustrating this, North House in...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 08:03
Caption: Isle Royale moose study Feb 2019, Credit: Dr. Seth Moore, Director of Biology and Environment for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
The University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine and the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have partnered to conduct an inte...

  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 22:22
Caption: Trout stocking might change or end in some Cook County lakes due to climate change., Credit: Joe Friedrichs
A changing climate continues to impact a variety of fish and wildlife management strategies in northern Minnesota. Trout species, in particular, ar...

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  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 09:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Friedrichs holds an empty stringer on the 2019 Fishing Opener., Credit: Brad Nielsen
It was a busy weekend for many anglers across the state, as May 11 launched the start of the 2019 fishing season in Minnesota.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 09:30
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Grand Portage and Grand Marais were once fur trade posts, and the journals of several fur trade clerks mention an Anishinaabe tribal leader named E...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 09:17
Caption: The Lake Superior Project/Logo, Credit: Lauryl Loberg
Northeast Minnesota has had its share of destructive forest fires. But in the early 1900s, after an unusually hot, dry summer, a large fire threate...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
Caption: The Lake Superior Project/Logo by Lauryl Loberg
Northeast Minnesota has undergone many geologic events to produce the landscape we know today.

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1