Canoeing the Boundary Waters Wilderness: A Sawbill Log

Continues: A Boundary Waters history. 2011.

An avid Nordic ski racer, cyclist, sailor, canoeist and remarkably patient angler, Stephen Wilbers has taken sixty-four trips to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, as well as four trips to the wilds of Canada as a Boy Scout and one with his wife, Debbie, to Quetico Provincial Park. All told, he has spent about one year of his sixty-two years wilderness canoeing, and he hopes to make it two years before he dies. His previously published books include A Boundary Waters History: Canoeing Across Time, a history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a chapbook of poems titled This Northern Nonsense about Ernest Oberholtzer (the gentle giant who helped save the Boundary Waters from development) and three books of writing instruction, including Writing for Business (winner of a Minnesota Book Award) and Keys to Great Writing.