On January 8, 2021 Voyageurs National Park celebrated 50 years since being approved by legislation.
Minnesota s first and only National Park turned 50 last week! On January 8, 1971, President Richard Nixon approved legislation to create Voyageurs National Park in International Falls. The proposal to create a National Park in Minnesota was actually first presented 80 years earlier in 1891, reports KSTP. However, it wasn t until 1959 that the Federal Government began scouting out territory in Northern Minnesota to turn into a potential National Park and even after being approved in 1971 it would take another four years before the National Park Service acquired enough land to establish the park. Today, Voyageur National Park covers 218,000 acres and includes the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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Minnesota s 2020 class of 13 conservation officers are in the field in a heightened period of need for protecting the state s natural resources. Their arrival fills vacancies at field stations across the state and helps monitor the masses who ve flocked in greater numbers outdoors during the pandemic.
Rodmen Smith, their boss, is upbeat about the group as the director of the Enforcement Division of the Department of Natural Resources, and mindful of what all of his ranks are up against. Minnesota is cycling through seasons of next-level activity. Like spring, summer and fall, winter has been busier than normal, from more ice anglers to more state trail users behind motors and on skis. Many of the people are newcomers, too, making education paramount, Smith said.