But for all the motorized use, Voyageurs offers remarkable opportunities for paddlers. Cross-country skiers and snowshoers can find quiet splendor in the winter as well, despite the snowmobiles. The park has a healthy moose herd of around 80. Up to 40 wolves in six established packs use the park. So do large numbers of nesting bald eagles.
Loons are plentiful.
Voyageurs has more beavers than any other park in the system. And it has, at the moment, more enemies as well. The GMP process has been fully public. But the county commissioners have refused to participate. That is just what they have done, forcing the NPS to extend the time limit for public comments twice.