As Isle Royale National Park, one of the nation's least-visited and most remote parks, prepares to open for the season on April 16, officials are reminding visitors of new rules in effect to prevent ...

Sarah Hoy spends winter in a small cabin on a remote, snow-covered island colonized by wolves. Drinking water comes from a hole in the ice on Lake Superior, which surrounds the island. A generator ...

Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior is one of the nation’s more remote national parks. The archipelago island chain is made up of the main Isle Royale, which is about 50 miles long and nine ...

Isle Royale National Park, one of the nation's least-visited and most remote parks, instituted new rules for visitors in 2025 to prevent unwanted wolf interactions. In July 2024, the park introduced a ...

One of the world’s longest-running wildlife field studies has fallen prey to the coronavirus pandemic. Since 1959, a research team has spent most of the winter observing the interplay between wolves ...

For half a century, Rolf Peterson has visited a remote island in Lake Superior where the snow comes up to his hip and the cold wind is fierce enough to split a tree trunk. During the trips, he studies ...

As wolves bounce back after nearly disappearing from the park, their presence as a predator on the island will help all wildlife thrive at Isle Royale. Today, lead researchers from Michigan ...

Isle Royale National Park implemented new rules in 2025 regarding food storage to prevent wolf interactions. These rules require visitors to use animal-resistant containers and store food properly to ...

HOUGHTON, MICH. -- Isle Royale National Park, which sits surrounded by Lake Superior some 55 miles from the tip of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, is so rugged and remote that most experts recommend ...

ISLE ROYALE — The National Park Service killed a wolf on Isle Royale that became reliant on visitors' food and showed signs of habituation. The wolf was one of two "problem wolves" with an "escalating ...

A nonprofit group dedicated to studying moose-wolf interactions at Isle Royale National Park is looking for volunteers to hike the archipelago to find bones and study the large animals. "Moosewatch ...

Emily Pennington is a columnist and longtime Outside contributor. For her 63 Parks column, she visited every U.S. national park. 62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S.