meeting on Siskiwit Lake
4-5 Feb
4 Feb – Throughout the night and into the morning, most of Middle Pack traveled south across the Grace Creek drainage, over Red Oak Ridge, and on through the swamps south of Feldtmann Lake. Unable
Working for a meal
1-3 Feb
1 Feb – Middle Pack spent most of the day milling about an area near Grace Creek overlook. They gnawed on the hide of a calf – it was all that remained of this calf that they had killed sometime
Back in business
28-31 Jan
28 Jan – day’s end the Flagship had passed her test flight.
29 Jan – Rolf and I stood on the ice, looking skyward. Patches of blue opened and closed as snow-laden clouds pushed themselves across
What does a moose think?
24-27 Jan
24 Jan – Half or maybe ¾ of an inch of dreary rain fell during the late morning and early afternoon. It drizzled the rest of the time. The Harbor was covered in about 2 inches of water.
25 Jan –
If you try it, you might like it
21-23 Jan
21 Jan – We waited all day, anxiously. We waited for good news that the flagship had been repaired. That news never came.
22 Jan – Number of days without the flagship: 4. Number of days I’ve
Not as it first appeared
18-20 Jan
18 Jan – It was good that we woke before dark and took flight at first light. What began as thick, heavy clouds became snow. Within two hours we were back at the bunkhouse drinking hot
First flight
15-17 Jan
15 Jan – Passing time in Ely is fine, but we’re all anxious for Isle Royale. The weather has been poor and time crept for three days. Today’s forecast was no better.
To our surprise, weather
End of a dynasty?
8 Jan 2010
This is the last time the alpha female of East Pack was seen alive - it was late February 2009. We found her carcass in the spring of 2009. She died in her den while giving birth to eight pups.
Isle Royale is a remote wilderness island in Lake Superior where nature still runs wild. Every winter we live here for seven weeks to observe the lives of wolves and moose. These journal entries share what we discover.
notes from the field
Winter Study
George Desort, the wolf-moose project’s visual artist, recently arrived to Winter Study. He’s been capturing Winter Study in still images. Check it out, right here.
