My mind was racing as I settled into a stackable chair and set my bag on a foldable table. The room next to an ice rink had been set up only moments earlier and soon would be filled with fur sewers.
ON LAKE VERMILION, NEAR COOK -- It's 10 below zero on New Year's Day, and Tom Yankowiak of Cook has appointments to keep with 15 beaver huts. Yankowiak is near one of those lodges now, chipping ...