Cochise County Library District: The North Woods w/ Candace Gossen

Stories from the Boundary Waters. On a timeline from the visible rocks from 4.8 billion years ago as they hold like basins, the glacial melt of the ten thousand lakes, where loons haunt the night and wolves and bears and beavers and moose meander. As a Park Ranger at Voyageurs National Park, this presentation will include geology, the dark of the north woods, a gold rush, the 355-year life of the Hudson Bay Company, the mound builders and the path of the Ojibwe and the only female Voyageur to secretly paddle her way across what we now know today as Canada. From Border to Border, Candace has worked as a National Park Ranger, a field scientist, lover of trees and wolves and sometimes called the bear whisperer. Come join for an hour of adventure where the woods are so dark, they are known to drive man mad.