A brief history of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest
The area comprises three million acres of boreal forest in northern Minnesota.
Karl Nycklemoe
The history of Minnesota’s only national park: Voyageurs
Forty percent of the area of Voyageurs is covered in lakes.
Educator and conservationist Sigurd Olson was instrumental in protecting the Boundary Waters
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.
