The Wilderness in a Time of Crisis
What is it about the wilderness that makes it such a spiritual necessity? Is it the simplicity of being…
Category: People
The Way We Used to Travel in the BWCA
Three women recount their experiences in the Boundary Waters during the 1960s and 70s. These accounts provide a unique…
Remembering Bud Heinselman:
A Wilderness Hero and Founder of the Friends
Bud Heinselman is one of our greatest and least recognized heroes. A giant figure in the battle for the…
Remembering Brian Boru O’Neill, Environmental Lawyer Extraordinaire
Brian O’Neill, who repeatedly represented the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness and other environmental groups as a Pro…
Creating a New Life on the Gunflint Trail
At 26, Ashley Bredemus was living a few hundred feet from the ocean in Florida, and working for an…
Remembering Don Fraser, a Champion of Wilderness
Don Fraser (1924 - 2019) was a politician with rare moral courage. For those of us who love…
Remembering the Ham Lake Fire
Twelve years ago, the Ham Lake Fire devastated the border region around the Gunflint Trail. Fueled by a dry…
One Artist’s Mission to Document the Changing North
Friends has partnered with artist and photographer Benjamin Olson, who has set out on an ambitious project to document…