A surveying error in 1882 left an area known as the "Lost Forty" in Big Fork State Forest untouched by loggers. The 144-acre area is now home to a variety of old-growth tree species, including over 300-year-old white pine. A group of visitors check out the trail and review a history marker on the "Lost Forty."
Today, less than 2 percent of the Minnesota's forested land is considered old growth.
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Another Old-growth pine forest exists at the end of Park Point, Minnesota Point, in Duluth...beyond the airport at the very tip of this strip of land within the city. It has been a struggle to maintain its preservation and survival, as creeping development has compromised this rare land area which was given by a conveyance in 1938 by the state, to the city.
This parcel of land and its surrounds, plus all the shoreline rolling out like a sand carpet from the seawall was given to the state by the city of Duluth under specified conditions..."To be so maintained for public recreation use only."
Certainly it is a legal trust that has been too often compromised; broken by creeping development, and seems it could even, if all else fails in its future protection, be returned to the state considering the repetitve, fractured conditions of that 1938 conveyance.
An Indian burial ground was a part of that land and the first lighthouse remains and the roots of the city itself rests in this old growth pine forest.
DNR has confirmed this portion of Park Point, Minnesota Point as Old Growth Forest and so designated as such a scientific area.
It is rewarding to see the clip and the preservation of the 'Lost Forty'.
It would be more rewarding if The Old Growth Forest of Minnesota Point, Park Point, would be consistantly respected...be it national, state or city.