Minnesota Star Tribune reporter Walker Orenstein and photographer Anthony Soufflé traveled to Isle Royale to give readers a sense of the place, the mystery and the whisper network that has been trying to understand the recent deaths of two campers.
This live Q&A has ended, but catch up on the responses below.
![Rising above the treeline (Top of this photo), on the shore of Birch Lake, the Twin Metals Copper Nickel Mine Plant site and Tailings Management site is part of the proposed plan. ] In theory, the copper-nickel mine Twin Metals wants to build in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a zero-discharge mine — a closed loop that will endlessly recycle millions of gallons of water, including rainwater and the polluted process water it uses to extract ore and](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/AWHWWVUU5HGVMX6RUZ4PCKXP6A.jpg?&w=436&ar=3:2&fit=crop)
