16 From Ancient Fires by John C. Greeny
Before there was a basin of water, our northern landscape 
started with fiery molten lava flows across the plains.

22 Paddling Pukaskwa by Layne Kennedy 
Fog-bound lost days and paddle-sore kayakers - not a picture-perfect journey … exactly what this photographer loves.

28 Shore Enough A Photo Feature
Paul Sundberg lives by the Big Lake, works at Gooseberry Falls State Park and takes photographs (where else?) on the shore.

Lake Superior Living
33 Tree Houses by Hugh E. Bishop
How to preserve the woods while building a house. 
      Cabin Essentials by Konnie LeMay
Cabinologist Dale Mulfinger talks of homes-away-from home.

Summer Travel Specials
41 Our 2002 Annual Lodging & Restaurants Guide
        A Wild Idea by Julie Buckles
Tour Wild Rice, one of the regions newest restaurants … 
then dive into hundreds of eating and lodging choices.

67 Life is an Art Fair by Robert LaLonde
A Marquette, Michigan artist tells you about his art fair life.

OUR COVER A beautifully bright summer day at one of Minnesota’s popular lakeshore stops: Gooseberry Falls. Photographer Paul Sundberg.

  3 Letters to the Editor

  4 Editor's Note

  4 Masthead (Meet Us)

  5 Around the Circle

  8 On the Shelf

 10 Lake Superior Journal
     Isle Royale Families 
    James R. Marshall

 12 Making It in the North
     The Dairy of Jilbert
     Frida Waara 

 65 My Lake Superior
     Treasure Hunting
     Nancy A. Auer 

     LSM Gift Guide

 69 Regional Calendar of
        Events

 79 Advertiser Index

 80 View•Point
     Playing Tag with 
        Lake Superior
     Scott Erickson