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December 29, 2004

Boundary Waters, Minnesota, 1997

Photograph by Raymond Gehman

"Only a two-day paddle from roadhead, Cherry Lake lies relatively near civilization. Some visitors spend weeks seeking more remote and even more pristine sanctuaries islanded with towering pines and spruce. With few exceptions, Boundary Waters bans the use of motors, sails, portage wheels—even canned food. Purists exult in the transcendent attractions of nature untamed, of daily rhythms keyed to the sun's arc and the paddle's dip."

—From the National Geographic book American Legacy: Our National Forests, 1997