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Many tiny ponds )" 45 9 Nary )" and bogs dot this rough and hilly land. )" 9 9 )" m" %¾ ¾>3 )" )"9 )"22 TWO WORKING FORESTS: From year to year, 470 r 470 ive Becida i R pp you may see changes in these forests. The DNR si is PAUL ss \" manages the trees, water, and wildlife in state i 460 M \" 9 460 forests for everyone to keep them healthy and LA SALLE )" Hennepin LAKE e Cr meet recreational, environmental, and economic Lake %¾ ¾>4 oshin eek "40 STATE ng ) " Bu goals. Trees are harvested to make a variety of 450 RECREATION [ 450 products, such as lumber and building materials, AREA 97 [" )" 69 pulp for making paper, pallets, fencing, and )" 440 )"3 440 Frontenac ¤£71 telephone poles. Through careful planning, Lake " LaSalle 45 \ harvesting, and planting, land managers create )"36 )" Lake P 430 a 430 forest openings or plant trees and vegetation %¾ ¾>5 u l to improve habitat for white-tailed deer, ruffed grouse, and waterfowl. The DNR manages state 420 [" BUNYAN 420 forests to prevent wildfires, and keep our water Vern Evergreen and air clean. B Lake u 410 n 410 [" y HISTORY: Millions of board feet of white and a n red pine were harvested from this area in the Guthrie )"2 5 early 1900s. The Red River Lumber Company had 52400 Big )" 52400 )"16 [" LaSalle 1206 purchased most of the land and timber and in )"44 )"16 1898 constructed a sawmill on the Eleventh Crow Lake )"16 )"21 390 Hart 390 Wing Lake near what is today the city of Akeley. 3 )" S t a Lake At first, the company maintained four to five t [" e logging camps. By 1908, eight to 10 camps 380 STATE 380 Lake )"45 existed in the area, with 4,000 to 5,000 men on Hattie Twenty )"36 the payroll. A logging railroad, started in 1902, [" Lake 370 P )"5 370 o k Tra extended to Lake Alice Township within a "44 e ) t y i quarter-mile of Itasca State Park by 1915. Many Lake C l re ek Steamboat of the present forest roads are old logging railroad %¾ 360 Itasca ( 360 Pickedee) Lake beds, such as Spur I and the Gulch Lake forest trail. In 1915 the Red River Lumber Company Lake 350 350 Minnie moved its operations to California. Small 200 «¬ CLEARWATER COUNTY " operators with portable sawmills cut the 3 [ FOREST )"39 HUBBARD COUNTY )" 39 rest of the merchantable timber and left the area 340 )"4 )" 340 ITASCA by 1920. Hubbard County’s “logging days” lasted )"36 )"66 %¾ ¾>6 %¾ only 20 years. 330 [" 330 K Garfield Kabekona abek TREES: Severe, successive fires between 1913 Alice on a Lake Lake Corner R and 1926 wiped out most of the sprouting young i v 320 e 320 HUBBARD COUNTY r pines allowing aspen to become established. Lake CASS COUNTY Itasca Before European settlement, white pine [" dominated the area, and DNR foresters have 310 %¾ ¾>7 [" 310 worked hard to increase white pine in the area. ¬200 « K Swamp 71 200 a STATE ¤£«¬ b For example in the 1990s, mature aspen were e 52 k Laporte " 52 300 o m 300 k n e a harvested from 1,940 acres to allow sunlight e r R 45 C i )" Lake l v l to reach white pine seedlings growing in the e a r Lake 91 t " )" S understory. Seedlings on these, and hundreds of 290 O" [ 64 290 George «¬ other acres, are becoming white pine forests [" once again. £71 200 Paine 280 ¤«¬ )"30 61 280 Lake Lake )" WILDLIFE: The Paul Bunyan and Badoura state [" George %¾ ¾>8 forests are home to white-tailed deer, bears, l Horseshoe i 270 39 Lake a 270 )" r gray wolves, snowshoe hares, and ruffed grouse. " T N \ [" e Furbearers include fishers, otters, bobcats, PARK a 4 t t )" \" a io t 260 n S 260 coyotes, beavers, and red and gray foxes. a l d Beauty n Although not a major flyway, birdwatchers can y Gulc ake a 71 r " l £ t " [ t ¤ Lake S [ n ceni Campgroun r spot a variety of warblers, red-shouldered hawks, u " c " a o [ \ 250 C e 250 and bald eagles. Migratory wildfowl can be found Inset ap 31 H CLEARWATER COUNTY [" Kabekona )" in the area’s many ponds and bogs in the spring Schoolcraft on everse m" Benedict BECKER COUNTY Lake m" Lake 240 th 240 and fall. or T N r Are ith !" ail [" «¬371 Limitations 37 )" )"39 230 %¾ ¾>10 230 «¬113 %¾ «¬200 The information in this map is dynamic and Lester Pau unyan tate ¾>9 Lake 220 Benedict Leech 220 may change over time. The Minnesota DNR is Fores South ni PAUL Lake P Lake not liable for improper or incorrect use of the Inset ap n everse aul [" Bu ny data described and/or contained. 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