ELY --The sun is just rolling out of bed, throwing long shadows across the ice of Moose Lake east of Ely. Beyond the shadows, the lake is bathed in light the color of a tamarack in October.

Using canoes, a tow strap and some soothing conversation, a team of rescuers pulled a 650-pound moose out of Hungry Jack Lake in far northeastern Minnesota Monday morning.

The Wood Lake wildfire continues to burn in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Superior National Forest provided an update on Monday. Officials say the fire has burned 27 acres and is ...

Willy Vosburgh, a Moose Lake resort owner and BWCA outfitter who has been operating towboats for 17 years, ...

ELY, Minn. (Northern News Now) - The Superior National Forest is closing a portion of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness due to an ongoing wildfire. The Wood Lake Fire was detected on Sept ...

More importantly the wind had settled and Moose Lake, about 20 miles up the Fernberg Road from Ely, was alternately flat and only slightly riffled. "We'll see you this evening,'' I said.

Permits for Moose Lake (seen here) and Fall Lake will still be available through the lottery system the Superior National Forest said Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. MPR File Photo/Nathaniel Minor Next Slide ...

Fellow Ely Chamber member Bob LaTourell, 44, of LaTourell's Moose Lake Outfitters, maintains a fleet of 120 canoes at the business his grandfather started in the 1940s.

As for mammals, you have a chance of seeing moose at Boundary Waters. Thousands of them live in this area, and they like the shorelines and marshes. You have more of a chance of seeing them if you ...

The bull moose had fallen into a lake in the Adirondacks and been in the frigid waters for about two hours before rescuers arrived and used a chain saw to free it.

The stark landscape of the burn remains studded with the skeletal remains of trees, but saplings, wildflowers, berries and bees have swept in to fill the void.

UPDATE: The Wood Lake wildfire continues to burn in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Superior National Forest says that the fire is 50% contained at 27 acres as of Friday, September 27.