Summer in the corps
September 21, 2012 in Lake County News-Chronicle
The Civilian Conservation Corps is most well known as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s program that put young men to work conserving government-owned lands during the Great Depression. A modern version of the program still exists, with a branch active in northern Minnesota. Continue Reading
But the trail to Knife Lake has been a sled-breaker this winter because of a lack of portage snow. Stu has found some good fishing up Basswood way, and we could have angled in that direction. But we decided instead to run the dogs into a portion of the 90,000 wilderness acres that burned last summer, starting at Pagami Creek.
More fires burning across northern MinnesotaThe Pagami Creek fire in the Superior National Forest jumped outside its perimeter in spots in recent days fanned by strong winds in tinder-dry conditions.
The Pagami Creek fire east of Ely, Minn., has kept moose hunters out of the area and left them unable to scout it ahead of the season that opened Saturday.
A sea of tents and trailers nestled in the woods just northwest of Isabella is what hundreds of firefighters battling the Pagami Creek fire have called home this past month.
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