The 1,000-Mile Great Lakes Adventures

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Mammals of Isle Royale

 

Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. 

She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. 


To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to 

http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/





While the moose and wolves on Isle Royale capture  most of the attention of visitors, there are other creatures living there.

If we exclude bats, there are only 11 mammals on the island:

moose, wolves, beaver, muskrat, otter, fox, short-tailed weasel, red squirrel, deer mouse, snowshoe rabbit, marten


Pretty sure this is an otter (above and video below)





Master engineer, the beaver.



The most vocal resident on the island, the red squirrel.



Me and my hiking pals (April, Zan and Julie)


We found this recently killed bunny along the trail. Note the blood on the leaf.


We didn't see any fox this year, though they left scat along many of the trails we hiked.




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