Boundary Waters

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Wild, spectacular country has the power to evoke images, stir memories, rouse emotions, and inspire awe. This quality is what distinguishes a region such as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a land that, in the words of writer Greg Breining, "seems to conceal a ghost in every cliff and churning brook." The one-million-acre Boundary Waters is situated in northern Minnesota, flush against the Canadian bordér. Nationally renowned as "canoe country," it includes more than fourteen hundred lakes and a network of rivers that once carried fur-trading voyageurs from Laké Superior to the interior of Canada. Its dense forest of pine, spruce, fir, and aspen springs from the thin soils covering the Canadian Shield, imposing and ever-present bedrock more than two bili ion years old. The area was first protected by the establishment of Superior National Forest in 1909, and since then, further steps have been taken to preserve this unique section of the north woods. It has been a part of... Tovább

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Wild, spectacular country has the power to evoke images, stir memories, rouse emotions, and inspire awe. This quality is what distinguishes a region such as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a land that, in the words of writer Greg Breining, "seems to conceal a ghost in every cliff and churning brook." The one-million-acre Boundary Waters is situated in northern Minnesota, flush against the Canadian bordér. Nationally renowned as "canoe country," it includes more than fourteen hundred lakes and a network of rivers that once carried fur-trading voyageurs from Laké Superior to the interior of Canada. Its dense forest of pine, spruce, fir, and aspen springs from the thin soils covering the Canadian Shield, imposing and ever-present bedrock more than two bili ion years old. The area was first protected by the establishment of Superior National Forest in 1909, and since then, further steps have been taken to preserve this unique section of the north woods. It has been a part of the federal wilderness system since 1964. In their book Boundary Waters, Breining and photographer Jerry Stebbins use words and color photographs to re-create their own visions of this wilderness. It is a world of sights, sounds, sensations, and emotions-of "faint wolf howls on a frosty night; the pale, elusive lights of the aurora borealis; the warm yellow and brown of grasses and forest; and the brilliant white of birches as sunlight tears away thunderheads after a spring rain." Stebbins's 83 photographs, compiled over a year's time, depict the Boundary Waters in its many aspects and in its seasonal changes-from low marshlands to rocky cliffs, and from the frozen whiteness of winter to the languid summer months when canoeists paddle their boats through the area's waterways. As the beauty of the Boundary Waters becomes apparent, so does the need to cherish and preserve it. In our industrialized society, such unspoiled regions are becoming increasingly rare. Image by image, Stebbins and Breining build a portrait that argues strongly for strict and permanent protection of this remote, awe-inspiring wilderness. Vissza