Lob Trees In The Wilderness : The Human and Natural History of the Boundary Waters.
Title:
Lob Trees In The Wilderness : The Human and Natural History of the Boundary Waters.
Author:
Ahlgren, Clifford.
ISBN:
9780816692903
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series:
Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage
Contents:
CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1. Red Pine Lob Tree: Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Sacred Juniper Lob Tree: Flora -- CHAPTER 3. Jack Pine Lob Tree: Forest Fire -- CHAPTER 4. Big Cedar Lob Tree: Presettlement Forests -- CHAPTER 5. Paper Birch Lob Tree: Early Inhabitants -- CHAPTER 6. White Pine Lob Tree: Pine Logging -- CHAPTER 7. White Spruce Lob Tree: Pulpwood Logging -- CHAPTER 8. Balsam Fir Lob Tree: Recreation and Preservation -- CHAPTER 9. Aspen Lob Tree: Conclusions -- APPENDIX: Common and Scientific Names of Plants -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Along the Minnesota-Ontario border, in the days of voyageurs, tall trees were used as guideposts in the uncharted wilderness to help fur traders and explorers find their way through the maze of lakes and portages. Branches were cut, leaving the middle of the trees bare with branches above and below. Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren, two of the most knowledgeable ecologists of the area, use nine native trees to serve as lob trees for this book, an ecological history of human activity in the Quetico-Superior wilderness area.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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