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VOYAGEURS
Eighty Years in the Making A Legislative History of Voyageurs National Park |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Remarks by Former Minnesota Governor Elmer L. Andersen
Chapter 1: The National Park Service in Northeastern Minnesota
Chapter 2: Developing a Proposal for Voyageurs National Park
Chapter 3: Delay and Frustration
Chapter 4: Progress on Voyageurs Stalled by Cautious Congressman
Chapter 5: State Administration Leads National Park Cause
Chapter 6: Blatnik Introduces Park Legislation
Chapter 7: Reintroduction of Voyageurs National Park Legislation
Chapter 8: Deadlocks and Bottlenecks
Chapter 9: Washington Hearings
Chapter 10: Final Passage
Chapter 11: The Final Step to Establishment
Chapter 12: The Four Years to Establishment
Afterward by Voyageurs National Park Superintendent Barbara West
Appendices:
A. Enabling Legislation
B. Chronological Summary of Important Events
Index (omitted from the online edition)
A revised edition of this document has been released by the
University of Minnesota Press as,
Voyageurs National Park: The Battle to Create Minnesota's National Park (2004).
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
1 Location map, Voyageurs National Park2 Vicinity map, Voyageurs National Park
3 Presettlement Vegetation, Minnesota
4 Quetico-Superior Area
5 First Proposal for Voyageurs National Park, 1963
6 Proposed Voyageurs National Park, 1965
7 VNP Boundaries at Time of Establishment, 1975
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