Isle Royale

On today's Stateside, we met with Phoebe Wall Howard to learn about the challenges of knowing when to encourage senior motorists to set the keys down. Then, Emily Pennington joined the show to discuss her recent WSJ article on the U.S National Parks and why Michigan's Isle Royale won the top spot in her ranking. And we visited the chef and owner of Adobo Boy in Grand Rapids.

Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal released an article ranking the best national parks across the country. Ranked number one on the list as the best national park was Michigan’s Isle Royale. On today's episode, we talk with one of the co-authors' of the article to talk about their rankings, and what led to Michigan topping the charts.

Wildlife researchers say the wolf population on a remote Lake Superior island is stable. But they say the moose population declined by 14% from last year.

This winter we've had record breaking warm weather. What does this mean for Isle Royale's wolves and moose, and how does it affect the census that tracks them?

Michigan Technological University's wolf-moose study is the longest running predator-prey study in the world. Surveying was suspended this year because of prolonged warm temperatures melting some of the ice pack on Isle Royale.

On today's show, we spoke about gun-related police encounters and heard about a recent school lockdown. Plus, a novelist discussed her book and we heard about Isle Royale updates.

Most of Isle Royale’s more than 130,000 acres is designated as wilderness, but the new plan focuses the few places on the island that are not.

Just four years ago, only a single pair of inbred wolves remained on Isle Royale. That’s when the National Park Service began transplanting outside wolves to the isolated island. Now, Michigan Tech’s annual survey reports an estimated 28 wolves on the island as of this past February.

Isle Royale is the least visited of our national parks, but it's also one of the most revisited. The pandemic threw a curveball at the Lake Superior…

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