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Voyageurs National Park: Minnesota Legislature
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Voyageurs National Park chronicles the complex legal and political campaign to found Minnesota’s only national park. Witzig’s thoroughly documented and referenced research allows him to offer a detailed view of the unanticipated disappointments and defining moments of achievement that accompanied this complicated legislative battle.
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On this day in 1971, Voyageurs National Park was authorized as a unit of the National Park Service. Located in northern Minnesota, the park's waterways, islands, campsites and wilderness backcountry provide outstanding opportunities for year-round recreation. Learn more about the park here.
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The records contain correspondence, minutes, news releases, newsletters, grant applications, printed material, newspaper clippings, and related material of the Voyageurs Region National Park Association. The records pertain to the legislative establishment of the park (1968-1975), and subsequent planning and development issues relating to Voyageurs and the St. Croix National Scenic Waterway. The correspondence includes letters of former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen, Rita F. Shemesh, Martin N. Kellogg, Mary Kenny, Judge Edwin P. Chapman (association board member), Congressman John A. Blatnik, and other government officials. Bills and legislation include various bill drafts and the final 1971 act authorizing the park, as well as subsequent attempts to alter or augment legislation affecting the park and waterway. Meetings, Minutes, and Events notebooks contain a wide range of information on association activities, as well as background information and clippings. The subject files include information on various issues, including snowmobile and aircraft use in the park; on partnerships with other conservation organizations; and maps, membership information, and printed material, including brochures, government studies and reports, and magazine articles.
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Voyageurs is one of the best birding destinations in the national park system. Until now there was no adequate resource for those wishing to enjoy its singular combination of species and habitats. This richly illustrated volume fills that void. Not only informational, it will ... be a cherished memento for visitors to the Minnesota-Ontario border country and an inspiration for those planning such a trip.
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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.
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P[R]istine wilderness waterways await visitors to northern Minnesota and Voyageurs National Park. Here numerous periods of glaciation have carved the area's rugged granite landscape, exposing some of the oldest rocks on the planet. Named after the voyageurs, or the French travelers, who explored The Grand Portage in their birchbark canoes, the area is a major destination for canoeists and kayakers.
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