Fire damage to trees in Superior National Forest, 1929. Photograph by the St. Paul Dispatch.

Canoers portaging a canoe in Superior National Forest, St. Louis County, Minnesota, 1925. From the North Star Museum of Boy Scouting and Girl Scouting.

Ojibwe families building canoes on Sandy Point in Shagawa Lake (outside present-day Ely), ca. 1900. In 1909, the site became part of the Superior National Forest. Public domain.

Birch-bark bucket used to collect sap from maple trees. Created by citizens of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, ca. 1880. The Bois Forte as well as the Grand Portage Chippewa (Ojibwe) reserve the right to hunt, fish, collect sap for maple sugar, and harvest wild rice in their traditional homelands inside the Superior National Forest.

Canoeists from Camp Thunderbird at Moose Lake Landing, an entrance to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in the Kawishiwi Ranger District of the Superior National Forest. Photograph (R9_485431) by P. Freeman Heim, August 1957. Used courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina. CC BY-SA 2.0

Donald Ferguson and Bruce Casey of the US Forest Service prepare to portage around Lower Basswood Falls in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) inside the Superior National Forest, Minnesota. Photograph (FHS855) by Roy Dale Sanders, July 1961. Used courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, NC. CC BY-SA 2.0

Ginwaajiwanaang (Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung), The Place of the Long Rapids, also called Long Sault Rapids, in Franz Jevne State Park. Photo by Marjorie Savage, 2021. Used with the permission of Marjorie Savage.

Upper Sault access sign at a boat launch on the Rainy River in Franz Jevne State Park. Photo by Wikimedia user Tony Webster, October 6, 2017. CC BY-SA 2.0

Signage in Franz Jevne State Park. Photo by Marjorie Savage, 2021. Used with the permission of Marjorie Savage.