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Barn and gamekeeper’s house at Carlos Avery Game Farm

Construction of the barn and gamekeeper's house, Carlos Avery Game Farm, 1936.

Control structure for waterfowl impoundment

Control structure for waterfowl impoundment on Sunrise River, Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area, ca. 1965. Photograph by Walter H. Wettschreck.

Carlos Avery

Carlos Avery, executive agent for the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission, 1907. Photograph by Petri & Svenson.

Carlos Avery Game Farm dedication event

Minnesota Federal Symphonic Band playing at the dedication of the Carlos Avery Game Refuge, 1938.

Tending Norway Pine seedlings at Carlos Avery Game Farm

Anoka Conservation District photograph of Norway Pine seedlings in their second year of growth in the Department of Natural Resource Nursery at Carlos Avery before lifting for sale to forestry cooperators. Julius Edwards, soil conservationist on left; Alex Gurtin, district forester, on right. Photograph was taken June 28, 1972, by USDA-Soil Conservation Service SCS-CART-164 Rev.7.90.

Entrance to the Carlos Avery Game Farm

Main gate of the Carlos Avery Game Farm, with buildings in the background, photograph taken Fall, 1992. Located at 5463 Broadway Avenue, Columbus, MN. Photographer unknown. Used with the permission of Anoka County Historical Society.

Carlos Avery Game Farm

In the mid-twentieth century, Anoka County's Carlos Avery Game Farm helped to build populations of dwindling game bird species, such as the bob white quail, chukar partridge, and ring-necked pheasant. A National Register-listed historic district since 1991, it is now part of the nearly 25,000-acre Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and has become a reserve for deer, waterfowl, and other woodland animals and birds.