USA ~ Isle Royale National Park - Michigan - UNESCO ~

... Lovely vintage poster postcard of a new National Park... although Isle Royale NP is the least visited national park and only one in Michigan, it gets the highest number of repeat visitors... there are more than 165 miles of trails for hikers to explore and no roadways for cars... also the only NP in the country to close down completely in the winter... due to extreme winter weather conditions... the two largest animals on the island are moose and wolves... moose probably by swimming to it in the early 1900s... wolves likely by walking across the frozen lake between 1945 and 1950... Thanks a lot Andrene!!  ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ)

Isle Royale, centre of a wilderness archipelago includes the main island itself as well as 200 smaller islands in its vicinity. It is located in Lake Superior,  which is the largest freshwater lake in the world.

It was established as a national park in 1940. In 1980 it was designated an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.The park’s surface area, four-fifths of which is water, is 893 square miles (2,313 square km).

Wildlife that can be seen in the National Park include moose, wolves, beavers, foxes, loons, ducks, hares, and squirrels among others.

Isle Royale is also the site of the world’s longest continuous study of any predator-prey system in the world.

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Forever stamps - the echeveria
(Issued 28-04-2017)