From the editorial: "Imagine, elk back in Northeastern Minnesota, their sprawling tree-limb antlers, their haunting bugle cries, and their thick bodies the size of pickup trucks."
The updated plan includes goals, objectives and strategies for managing fish populations in Minnesota’s portion of the big lake, an area of more than 300,000 acres.
The hikes are being held at 10 state parks as part of a nationwide effort to connect people with the outdoors, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
It's one piece of a broader land sale plan that would see the state of Minnesota sell its school trust land in the Boundary Waters to the Forest Service, which manages and owns much of the BWCAW.
The current management goal for Lake of the Woods calls for maintaining a fall survey catch of more than 14 walleyes and 15 saugers per net on a three-year moving average.
