A brief history of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest
The area comprises three million acres of boreal forest in northern Minnesota.
Karl Nycklemoe is a reference assistant at the Minnesota Historical Society. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Luther College in 2018.
The area comprises three million acres of boreal forest in northern Minnesota.
Forty percent of the area of Voyageurs is covered in lakes.
Olson’s conservation efforts in the Quetico-Superior region aided in the establishment of Voyageurs National Park (the name is credited to Olson) and the designation of the BWCA as a wilderness area in 1978.
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By Karl Nycklemoe
June 1, 2020