Map of the Superior National Forest

Map of the Superior National Forest

Vicinity and locator map of the Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Created by the United States Forest Service, August 8, 2012. Public domain

Superior National Forest postcard

Superior National Forest postcard

Superior National Forest postcard, postmarked 1948. Scanned by Flickr user Joe Haupt, March 19, 2019. CC BY-SA 2.0

Forest Ranger demonstrating fire clean-up

Forest Ranger demonstrating fire clean-up

A Forest Ranger demonstrates how to clear duff away from a campfire in the Superior National Forest. Photograph by J. W. Trygg, April 23, 1941. Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina. CC BY-SA 2.0

Fire damage in Superior National Forest

Fire damage in Superior National Forest

Fire damage to trees in Superior National Forest, 1929. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch.

Canoers in Superior National Forest

Canoers in Superior National Forest

Canoers portaging a canoe in Superior National Forest, St. Louis County, Minnesota, 1925. From the North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting.

Ojibwe families building canoes

Ojibwe families building canoes

Ojibwe families building canoes on Sandy Point in Shagawa Lake (outside present-day Ely), ca. 1900. In 1909, the site became part of the Superior National Forest. Public domain.

Bois Forte Ojibwe birch-bark sap bucket

Bois Forte Ojibwe birch-bark sap bucket

Birch-bark bucket used to collect sap from maple trees. Created by citizens of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, ca. 1880. The Bois Forte as well as the Grand Portage Chippewa (Ojibwe) reserve the right to hunt, fish, collect sap for maple sugar, and harvest wild rice in their traditional homelands inside the Superior National Forest.

Superior National Forest

Superior National Forest is an iconic part of northeast Minnesota that comprises over three million acres (more than 445,000 of which are surface water) of boreal forest. The forest itself is part of the vast North Woods, a tourist destination in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) is within the forest, which is itself part of the Quetico Superior region that extends into Canada.

Canoeists at Moose Lake Landing

Canoeists at Moose Lake Landing

Canoeists from Camp Thunderbird at Moose Lake Landing, an entrance to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the Kawishiwi Ranger District of the Superior National Forest. Photograph (R9_485431) by P. Freeman Heim, August 1957. Used courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina. CC BY-SA 2.0

Forest Service workers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Forest Service workers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Donald Ferguson and Bruce Casey of the US Forest Service prepare to portage around Lower Basswood Falls in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) inside the Superior National Forest, Minnesota. Photograph (FHS855) by Roy Dale Sanders, July 1961. Used courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, NC. CC BY-SA 2.0

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