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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or Minnesota DNR, is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks , state forests , recreational trails , and recreation areas as well as managing minerals , wildlife , and forestry ...
Geography; Location: Cass and Hubbard counties, Minnesota, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Elevation: 1,430 feet (440 m): Area: 150,113 acres (60,749 ha): Administration; Established: 1935: Governing body: Minnesota DNR, Hubbard County: Website: www.dnr.state.mn.us /state _forests /sft00038 /index.html: Ecology; WWF Classification: Western Great Lakes Forests: EPA Classification: Northern ...
Minnesota, showing major roads, railroads, and bodies of water. The U.S. State of Minnesota is the northernmost state outside Alaska; its isolated Northwest Angle in Lake of the Woods is the only part of the 48 contiguous states lying north of the 49th parallel north. Minnesota is in the U.S. region known as the Upper Midwest in
Minnesota ecoregions map prepared in 2007 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The list of ecoregions in Minnesota provides an overview to the ecoregions (see also, ecosystem) in the U.S. state of Minnesota, [1] as defined separately by the Environmental Protection Agency/Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the World ...
Geography; Location: Pine and Carlton counties, Minnesota, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Elevation: 1,306 feet (398 m): Area: 92,924 acres (37,605 ha): Administration; Established: 1935: Governing body: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Website: www.dnr.state.mn.us /state _forests /sft00035 /index.html: Ecology; WWF Classification: Western Great Lakes Forests: EPA Classification ...
The history of the forest mirrors that of the majority of northern Minnesota. The area was inhabited by the Ojibwe and the Dakota prior to European settlement.The French fur traders were the first Europeans to arrive to the area in the early eighteenth century, and controlled the fur trade until the 1760s, when British and Canadians came to dominate.
The Minnesota DNR ranks Lake Vermilion as the fifth largest lake by surface area for bodies of water entirely within Minnesota borders. The surface area of Lake Vermilion is 39,271 acres (158.9 km 2) and has a maximum depth of 76 feet (23 m). [3] It is located within the southernmost section of the Canadian Shield, and contains over 365 islands.