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Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest is a Wisconsin state forest of more than 225,000 acres (910 km²) across Vilas, Oneida, and Iron counties in north-central Wisconsin. The state forest includes numerous lakes, rivers, and streams. The most prominent rivers are the Wisconsin, Flambeau, and Manitowish. The state forest supports a large variety of outdoor recreation activities including camping, hiking, snowmobiling, bicycling, boating, fishing, hunting, and birdwatching. In addition to recreational activities the state forest ... hosts a number of research programs. The forest is a state-managed timber resource providing opportunities for commercial logging, individual firewood collection, and individual Christmas tree harvesting.
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At 223,283 acres, the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest is Wisconsin’s largest property. It offers many campgrounds totaling 871 campsites; most offering water, showers, restrooms, swimming, fishing and a boat launch. The forest contains a diversity of northern timber types interspersed with grasslands, marshes, and more than 900 lakes. It is home to one of the largest Bald Eagle nesting concentrations in the world.
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Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest has openings for Volunteer Campground Hosts for the 2008 season. In exchange for their stay on a beautiful wooded campsite, hosts greet new visitors, hand out literature, answer questions about the property and local area, share camping experiences, assist campers as needed and perform minor maintenance tasks (like picking up litter around the campgrounds, cleaning fire rings, and cleaning vault toilets).
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The Northern Highland was once a mountain range similar to the Alps or Rocky Mountains of today. Over hundreds of millions of years, these mountains were worn down and flattened out by erosion and glaciation. Today the region is mostly a smooth plain, but it remains higher than the rest of the state and some hilly regions continue to exist. Located near the center of the region, Timms Hill in Price County is the highest point in Wisconsin. It has an elevation of 1,951 feet above sea level. Other hills such as Rib Mountain ... approach this elevation.
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The portion of the Northern Highland in the area of Wisconsin glaciation forms a striking contract with the Driftless Area. There is no residual soil. Instead, there is a transported, glacial soil. Rapids and waterfalls are abundant in the streams. there are large undrained inter- stream areas. Lakes and swamps are found everywhere.
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Northern Highland: Most of northern Wisconsin is characterized by Northern Highland geography. This area, lying south of the Lake Superior Lowland, expands into about 1/3 of the sate. The Norther Highland reaches its highest elevations in the north, sloping downward to the south. The Northern Highland supports hundreds of small lakes and heavily forested hills. Timms Hill, the highest point in Wisconsin, is located in the Northern Highland.
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