Final Report of the International Joint Commission on the Lake of the Woods Reference

Final Report of the International Joint Commission on the Lake of the Woods Reference
Author: International Joint Commission
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1917
Genre: Lake of the Woods
ISBN:

Illustrations include : Lumbering in northern Minnesota, Log driving, Kawishiwi River, Paper mill at Fort Frances, Regina MIne, Sultana Mine, Winnipeg electric railway power plant, Fort Frances canal, Lift bridge International Falls, Koochiching Falls dam, Northwest angle survey, Rat Portage 1857, H.B.C post at Fort Frances.

Saving Quetico Superior

Saving Quetico Superior
Author: R. Newell Searle
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1977-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780873511407

Encompassing the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, the Quetico-Superior is the only region of its kind in the U.S. and Canada. This book tells the story of the long campaign to secure and preserve it for posterity and also illustrates the development of an American idea -- wilderness preservation.

Levelling the Lake

Levelling the Lake
Author: Jamie Benidickson
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0774835516

Stretching across Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota, the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake basin spans boundaries and jurisdictions. Levelling the Lake explores a century and a half of social, economic, and legal arrangements through which the resources and environment of the Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watershed have been harnessed and harmed. Jamie Benidickson traces the environmental consequences of mining, forest industries, commercial fishing, hydro-electricity production, and recreation, as well as their often unanticipated impacts on local residents, including Indigenous communities, which encouraged new legal and institutional responses. Assessing the transition from primary resource extraction toward sustainable development at a watershed level, Levelling the Lake also shows how interjurisdictional and transboundary issues – many involving the Canada-US International Joint Commission – continue to play a significant role throughout the region.