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Article: Wide open spaces: an ecotourist's guide to the Midwest.(GREEN LIVING: MONEY MATTERS)
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- Our Planet
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- May 19, 2008
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Maybe there's something in Wisconsin's water. How else to explain the state serving as home to so many conservation leaders, including Aldo Leopold and John Muir? Gazing out at the spectacular Apostle Islands--a group of 21 islands in Lake Superior at the northernmost coastline of Wisconsin--I began to understand how they captured so many imaginations.
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I ventured with my wife and son along the easily accessible trails in the Apostle Island National Lakeshore, followed by some beach combing at Little Sand Bay. While there, we were treated to a magnificent view of two bald eagles perched atop a pine tree and water-sculpted red ...