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The two parts of the lake are known as Upper Red Lake and Lower Red Lake. Lower Red Lake lies entirely within the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Total size is 444 square miles (1,150 km 2), with a maximum depth of 33 feet (10 m) in the lower portion of the lake. The elevation of the lake is maintained by a dam at the outflow that is the beginning ...
Lower Red Lake: Surface area: Upper Red Lake is 120,000 acres (49,000 ha): 60% (72,000 acres) of which is under the jurisdiction of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians (Red Lake Band), 40% (48,000 acres) falls under the jurisdiction of the State of Minnesota. Max. depth: 15 ft (4.6 m)
The fishing-dependent community suffered after a disastrous fall in walleyed pike or walleye (Sander vitreus) population in both basins of Upper and Lower Red Lakes during the 1990s. In 2002 members of the Upper Red Lake Area Association pushed the idea of a new state park, soon after nearly 10,000 acres (40 km 2 ) were classified as the Big ...
Newly introduced legislation in the Minnesota House and Senate proposes giving all state-owned land within 1 mile of Upper Red Lake to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa. State Sen. Mary Kunesh, DFL ...
The BWCAW within the Superior National Forest. The BWCAW extends along 150 miles (240 km) of the Canadian border in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. The combined region of the BWCAW, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Ontario's Quetico and La Verendrye provincial parks make up a large area of contiguous wilderness lakes and forests called the "Quetico-Superior country ...
The land area of the Reservation is located mainly around Lower Red Lake and west of that and Upper Red Lake. The land is covered by prime forest . According to the United States Census Bureau in 2020, the reservation has a total area of 1,260.32 square miles (3,264.2 km 2 ), of which 883.09 square miles (2,287.2 km 2 ) is land and 377.23 ...
Its highest point is a small hill 1.3 miles (2.1 km) northwest of Wolf Lake, at 1,511 ft (461 m) ASL; [7] otherwise the terrain high point is near its southwest corner, at 1,457 ft (444 m) ASL. [8] The county has a total area of 3,056 square miles (7,920 km 2 ), of which 2,505 square miles (6,490 km 2 ) is land and 551 square miles (1,430 km 2 ...
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