The Lake Superior Project

Series produced by WTIP

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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


91 Pieces

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Gwiwiizens, or Ricky DeFoe, Fond du Lac Ojibwe elder, was part of a coalition of water protectors who traveled to Serbia in February of 2024, to at...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 12:47
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Producer Martha Marnocha has created a three-part feature on the health and importance of the Superior National Forest. In this episode, we’ll hear...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 07:28
Caption: Submitted Image of David Dale Owen Map
In this segment, naturalist Kurt Mead and Grand Portage Ojibwe language coordinator Erik Redix, work together to decipher early Ojibwe names for No...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 08:27
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In part two, we hear from two foresters–Kyle Stover and Myra Theimer, about their role in managing the forest and why we should value and protect o...

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 06:57
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In this two-part story, producer Martha Marnocha investigates the current health and historical importance of the Superior National Forest.

  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 08:47
Caption: Photo of Mike Powell, courtesy of Cory Pederson
Cory Pederson was born and raised in Grand Marais, Minnesota on the North Shore of Lake Superior. He comes from a deep tradition of fishing, includ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2022
  • Length: 09:03
Caption: WTIP Staff
Known as “the toothed ones,” Dragonflies are a familiar sight in many backyards during the summer. In this feature by producer Martha Marnocha, we ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 09:19
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For nearly 100 years the Lyght family lived and worked in Cook County. Refugees from the deep south, the family raised 11 children in the Lutsen ar...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 08:12
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Northeast Minnesota experienced extensive "slash and burn" logging during the late 1800s and early 1900s. As a result, streams and rivers became hi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:15
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Northeast Minnesota experienced extensive "slash and burn" logging during the late 1800s and early 1900s. As a result, streams and rivers became hi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 09:23
Caption: John Linklater, official game warden photo from 1920s. Photo provided by the Wirta family.
Northern Minnesota has had its share of skilled woodsmen and canoeists, including John Linklater. Linklater was of Anishinaabeg, Cree and Scottish ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2021
  • Length: 10:16
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
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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
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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: 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
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
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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
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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
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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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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