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Published February 15, 2009, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery: 100th anniversary of the Superior National Forest

Historic photos of the Superior National Forest


Unidentified campers at a campsite in what is now the Superior National Forest. [Submitted photo]

  • Unidentified campers at a campsite in what is now the Superior National Forest. [Submitted photo]
  • Two unidentified loggers saw a section of white pine felled in what is now the Superior National Forest, likely in the late 1800s. Conservation leaders pushed for national forest status in part to help the region recover from wanton, cut-and-burn logging of that era.<br /><br />[Submitted photo]
  • An Ojibwe family canoes in the Superior National Forest. Before official U.S. government designation as a national forest, Ojibwe and, before them earlier natives peoples, took advantage of the region's rich natural resources, including wild rice, fish and game.<br /><br />[Submitted photo]
  • Then U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former Minnesota Gov. Orville Freeman makes breakfast on a 1965 BWCAW canoe trip that included first daughter Lynda Bird Johnson.<br /><br />[Submitted photo]
  • Forest Service employees D. Ferguson and Bruce Casey prepare to portage around Lower Basswood Falls in 1961.[Submitted photo]
  • An early Superior National Forest staff car.[Submitted photo]
  • Forest Service crew leader W.L. Barker was head of the Sand Lake timber survey camp in 1924.<br /><br />[Submitted photo]
  • U.S. Forest Service surveyor and renowned conservationist and author Arthur Carhart toured the Superior National Forest twice in its early years to locate prospective recreation areas and roads. He came back suggesting much of the region remain roadless wilderness. Courtesy Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina[Submitted photo]
  • 1890s photo of cut and burned over land near Chisholm, Minn. in the Superior National Forest. [Submitted photo]
  • Dorothy Molter — seen here in 1984 — was famous for her hospitality and homemade root beer. She was the last year-round resident of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and died in 1986. Sam Cook / News Tribune