Author: R. Newell Searle
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873511407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea -- wilderness preservation.
Author: Gary McGuffin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929140995
Category : Quetico Provincial Park (Ont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"The year 2009 marked the Centennial anniversary of Quetico Provincial Park, a 4,760 sq.km. (1,800 sq.mi) area west of Lake Superior and north of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area. This magnificent landscape of over 600 lakes in the heart of North America is linked by an intricate web of rivers and trails, and forms one of the greatest paddling paradises on Earth. Let this book be an inspiration to planning your own adventure into Quetico's benevolent spirit."--Pub. desc.
Author: Joe Paddock
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 9780873514095
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The first-ever biography of wilderness preservationist Ernest Oberholtzer, environmental pioneer, explorer, and caretaker of Minnesota and Ontario's boundary waters region.
Author: Robert Beymer
Publisher: W A Fisher Company
ISBN: 9780933287006
Category : Canoes and canoeing
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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Author: Jon Nelson
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770706089
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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Quetico Park in northwestern Ontario celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2009. Long-recognized as a gem among parks, Quetico contains some of the largest stands of old-growth red and white pine in Canada , as well as a diversity of fascinating lichens, carnivorous plants in specialized habitats. The author presents an insightful look into Quetico's natural history as he examines the adapations that have allowed moose, white-tailed deer, wolves and other mammals to survive. The human history of the park is also explored, beginning with the Objiwa living there when the area was designated as a park, followed by accounts of trappers, loggers, miners, park rangers, and poachers. Beginning with the retreat of the glaciers, the author combines his thorough research into Quetico's long and varied history with the threads of his own extensive involvement with the park. The result is a splendid tribute to a very special place.
Author: Roger Hall
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459713575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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Patterns of the Past has been published to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ontario Historical Society. Organized on 4 Sept 1888 as the Pioneer Association of Ontario, the Society adopted its current name in 1898. Its objectives, for a century, have been to promote and develop the study of Ontario’s past. The purpose of this book is both to commemorate and to carry on that worthy tradition. Introduced by Ian Wilson, Archivist of Ontario, and edited by Roger Hall, William Westfall and Laurel Sefton MacDowell, this distinctive volume is a landmark not only in the Society’s history but in the prince’s historiography. Eighteen scholars have pooled their talents to fashion a volume of fresh interpretive essays that chronicle and analyze the whole scope of Ontario’s rich and varied past. New light is thrown on our understanding of early native peoples, rural life in Upper Canada, the opening of the North, the impact of railways, and the growth of businesses and institutions. And there is much social study here too, especially of the new roles for women in industrial society, of working class experience, of ethnic groups, and of children in our society’s past. As well, there are innovative treatments of the conservation movement, of science’s role in provincial society, and of the relationship between society and culture in small towns. Anyone with an interest in the history of Canada’s most populous province will find much in this comprehensive collection.
Author: U.S. Quetico-Superior Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: Frederick Theodore Witzig
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesota's only national park. Witzig's thoroughly documented and referenced research allows him to offer a detailed view of the unanticipated disappointments and defining moments of achievement that accompanied this complicated legislative battle. Concentrating on the period from 1962 to 1975, Witzig identifies and explains the central issues surrounding the campaign including land acquisition policy, local concerns and opposition to the park, interagency conflict over inclusion of U.S. forest lands, antifederal attitudes in northeastern Minnesota, and the overstated case for the economic benefits a national park would bring. Witzig covers of the dispute over the inclusion of Crane Lake in the park and focuses on the many individuals and groups who were instrumental in the establishment of Voyageurs National Park, such as Governor Elmer L. Andersen, John A. Blatnik, Sigurd F. Olson, and Rita Shemesh.
Author: David Backes
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452903132
Category : Conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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