Aaron Moen of Dassel is a retired Cornell University professor who spends his winters in Minnesota and likes it. He began his career as a wildlife ecologist, focusing on the physiology, nutrition and ...

Beaver Camp would love to get a voyageur canoe that were like the ones French explorers used in the 18th and 19th centuries at the height of the North American fur trade. Those canoes held up to ...

More than a century after the Hudson's Bay Company was founded, another great Canadian fur-trading ... in their canoes for cargo. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Trading came with ...

Despite the weight of our canoe, we barely break a sweat ... Voyageurs is named for the 17th-century French fur trappers whose trade route defined the U.S.-Canadian border. Today, the park ...