“I love the purifying snows of winter," said naturalist Sigurd Olson on the subject of northern Minnesota’s vast wilderness. "Then spring comes creeping, and thousands of island-dotted lakes begin to absorb their thick skins of ice, and there’s a transformation so intense that I have the impression of traveling a long distance, without leaving home.”
Text from "Minnesota Wilderness," June 1993, National Geographic magazine
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gray Wolves," May 1998, National Geographic magazine)