A pristine ecosystem of fish and wildlife draws fishing, canoeing, and hiking enthusiasts, and with over 250,000 visitors each year, the BWCA is the most visited wilderness area in the country.
Kype lay very still, hoping that Nell would draw fish on him forever.
"I would have teachers in high school say, 'You should just draw fish,' " he recalls.
So I started drawing fish in my sketchbook, and then I started to realize that there was something in it".
The central Arctic probably has no commercial fish stocks now, experts say, but melting sea ice may draw fish such as cod farther north.
An ever-so-subtle jigging motion would draw fish in slowly, while the typical, rapid yo-yoing one might associate with attracting "dumb" sunfish went completely ignored.
Five to seven inches long, they not only outcompete other fish for food, but also eat rivals' eggs and fry, even using decoys to draw fish away from their young so other gobies can gobble them up.
The girls drew fish – not the kind I had drawn growing up, with an oval body and triangle tail, but fish with gills and fins and scales.
Scents emitted by certain species of adult corals draw fish and coral larvae to healthy reefs, while the noxious odor of out-of-control seaweed drives them away from damaged ecosystems.
Natives drew fish from the Columbia at several major sites, which also served as trading posts.
