Vermilion Falls Overlook on the Vermilion River inside the Superior National Forest. Photograph by Flickr user Tony Webster, September 30, 2017. CC BY-SA 2.0

Superior National Forest shoreline in Cook County. Photograph by Flickr user John W. Iwanski, July 8, 2014. CC BY-SA 2.0

Bird’s-eye view of the Superior National Forest. Photograph by Flickr user Phil, September 23, 2013. CC BY-SA 2.0

Vicinity and locator map of the Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Created by the United States Forest Service, August 8, 2012. Public domain

Superior National Forest postcard, postmarked 1948. Scanned by Flickr user Joe Haupt, March 19, 2019. CC BY-SA 2.0

A Forest Ranger demonstrates how to clear duff away from a campfire in the Superior National Forest. Photograph by J. W. Trygg, April 23, 1941. Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina. CC BY-SA 2.0

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.