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Frog Bay Tribal National Park (FBTNP) is located in Red Cliff. It is the first Tribal National Park in the United States. The original 89-acre parcel of former Red Cliff Reservation land was successfully reacquired in 2012 and a second, 86-acre private parcel was acquired in 2017.
The Red Cliff Band established the Frog Bay Tribal National Park on the reservation in 2012. [10] It is the first tribal national park open to the public in the United States. [ 11 ] The park protects about 175 acres (0.71 km 2 ) of boreal forest, wetland, and undeveloped Lake Superior coastline.
Red Cliff Ojibwe tribal officials in northern Wisconsin have raised concerns about a bill to designate the Apostle Islands as a national park.. Congressman Tom Tiffany, R-Wausau, who represents ...
Russell is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,553 at the 2020 census, up from 1,279 at the 2010 census. [4] The unincorporated communities of Red Cliff and Sand Bay are located in Russell. Red Cliff is the administrative center of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
Red Cliff Ojibwe Nation officials are celebrating this summer the last of more than 2,500 acres returned to the tribe from Bayfield County in northern Wisconsin.
The state park system in Wisconsin includes both state parks and state recreation areas. Wisconsin currently has 51 state park units, covering more than 60,570 acres (245.1 km 2) in state parks and state recreation areas.
Other partners include the Department of Natural Resources, Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Commission, Bad River and Red Cliff bands of Ojibwe, National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service.
In Wisconsin, reservations were established at Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, and Lac du Flambeau. The St. Croix and Sokaogon bands, left out of the 1854 treaty, did not obtain tribal lands or federal recognition until the 1930s after the Indian Reorganization Act. In Minnesota, reservations were set up at Fond du Lac and Grand Portage.