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QUETICO SUPERIOR WILDERNESS NEWS:
What the Boundary Waters looks like fifteen years after the Pagami Creek Fire
Fifteen years ago, the Pagami Creek Fire burned more than 90,000 acres of the Boundary Waters — the largest wildfire Minnesota had seen in nearly a century. Wilderness guide Pam Wright paddled back into the heart of it this summer, days after the area reopened, and found a landscape regenerating…
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness entry points now 70% open
The Forest Service says it has now opened over 70% of the one-million-acre BWCAW. Phase 7, effective August 13, will bring the total to more than 1,500 of campsites reopened.
FIRE UPDATES:
Wildfire updates, park and entry point closures, campfire restrictions. Learn more about prescribed burns, and the history of fire in the wilderness of Minnesota/Canada border lakes region. More >
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