Saving Quetico Superior: A Land Set ApartMinnesota Historical Society Press, 1977 M01 15 - 289 pages 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. |
Contents
ROADS AND THE WILDERNESS IDEA | 17 |
3 | 30 |
LAYING A LEGISLATIVE CORNERSTONE | 60 |
A RIVALRY DIES | 90 |
CONSOLIDATING THE ROADLESS AREAS | 143 |
WILDERNESS ON TRIAL | 165 |
A PIECE OF PAPER | 193 |
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acres air ban Airplanes folders airspace reservation American April Atikokan Backus Basswood Basswood Lake bill Blatnik boundary lakes boundary waters BWCA Canada canoe country commissioners Congress conservation conservationists Correspondence folder counties dams December Duluth federal Forest Service forestry Fort Frances Grand Portage Gun Lake Hubachek folders International Falls International Joint Commission Izaak Walton League January July June Kabetogama Kelly folders Lake Superior Law 733 folders logging lumber March Memorandum Minnesota and Ontario Namakan National Park November O'Hearn Oberholtzer to Kelly Oberholtzer's October Olson Ontario Ontario Paper Company Perko Pike President's Committee President's QSC records proposed protection provincial Quetico park Quetico Provincial Park Quetico-Superior Council Quetico-Superior country Quetico-Superior program Rainy Lake Rainy Lake watershed recreation Regional Forester resort owners roadless areas roads September Shipstead-Nolan Act Sigurd F Smrekar SNFR Superior forest Superior National Forest timber tion treaty Tyng United wilderness areas Wilson Winston folders wrote Zupancich