| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.1

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Voyageurs National Park: The Battle to Create Minnesota's National Park. By Fred T. Witzig. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. vii + 301 pp. Maps, notes, legislative chronology, bibliography, index. Paper $24.95.
Fred T. Witzig chronicles the labyrinthine process to establish the thirty-eighth national park in the United States, Voyageurs National Park. This conscientiously detailed legislative history reveals the long struggle from 1962 until 1974 to create Minnesota's national park. Located along the border lakes region of the state, Voyageurs lies at the western end of a federal recreation corridor linking the historical transportation route of the fur trade era known as the "Voyageurs Highway." How this park was established and the cast of politicians, nature enthusiasts, timber-industry representatives, and local residents form the subject and characters for this noteworthy regional history.	1
While Witzig's narrative focuses primarily on events in the 1960s and 1970s, he finds that the roots of the movement to establish a national park in Minnesota reach back to late-nineteenth-century conservation efforts. These early efforts to protect the border lakes region began with the creation of the Superior National Forest (1909), Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park (1913), and the Quetico-Superior Council (1927).	. . .

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