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CAMP AND PICNIC GROUNDS

Birches Camp and Picnic Grounds on the east shore of Lake Winnibigoshish.
Caribou Lake Camp and Picnic Grounds on Caribou Lake.
Farm Camp, camp and picnic grounds, 7 miles northeast of Marcell.
Idlewild Camp and Picnic Grounds, 7 miles northeast of Bena.
Lake Thirteen Camp and Picnic Grounds, on Lake Thirteen.
Knutson Dam Camp and Picnic Grounds on the northeast corner of Cass Lake.
Mable Lake Camp and Picnic Grounds on Mable Lake.
Rush Island Lake Camp and Picnic Grounds on Rush island Lake.
Seelye Point Camp and Picnic Grounds on Cut Foot Sioux Lake.
Six Mile Lake Camp and Picnic Grounds on Six Mile Lake.
Squaw Point Camp and Picnic Grounds on Steamboat Bay of Leech Lake.
Star Island Camp and Picnic Grounds on Cass Lake.
Stony Point Camp and Picnic Grounds on Leech Lake.
Walker Bay Camp and Picnic Grounds on Walker Bay of Leech Lake.
Webester Lake Picnic Ground on Webster Lake.
Willow Lake Campground, camp and picnic grounds on Willow Lake.
Williams Narrows Camp and Picnic Grounds on Cut Foot Sioux Lake.
Winnie Dam Camp and Picnic Grounds on the eastern tip of Winnibigoshish.

Tent under the pines at Caribou Lake Camp and Picnic Ground. F—401105


WATER CONTROL AND WATERFOWL DAMS

In addition to the Knutson Dam and Winnibigoshish Dam already mentioned, water-control and waterfowl dams are to be found at Federal Dam on Leech Lake; Ball Club Dam on the lake of that name, just north of United States Highway No. 2; Dry Creek Dam near Seelye Bay; Pigeon River Dam, near the Cut Foot Sioux Ranger Station; Rabideau Dam near Blackduck; Portage Dam on Portage Lake; and Six Mile Dam on Six Mile Lake.

Trucks hauling logs from the Cass Lake District to mills in Bmidji stop at the ranger station while the ranger scales the load. F—401044

Large quantities of Chippewa timber go into box boards. F—401070


FOREST USES

FREE USES, NO PERMIT REQUIRED.—Camping, picnicking, swimming, hunting, fishing, berry picking, wild ricing, skiing, tobagganing, skating, boating, hiking.

FREE USES OBTAINED UNDER A PERMIT FROM THE FOREST RANGER.—For public organizations.—Church sites, fish hatchery sites, school sites, dump grounds, cemetery sites, telephone rights-of-way, road and bridge rights-of-way, power line rights-of-way, fire line rights-of-way, cabon logs, bridge timbers, fuelwood, burning permits, sand, gravel and stone.

For private individuals.—Fuelwood for rural residents, sand and gravel, peat and marl, fence posts for farms, dead and down sawlog material for armers, camps and sawmill sites for loggers, burning permits.

SPECIAL USES FOR WHICH A PERMIT IS REQUIRED AND A CHARGE MADE.—Pasture lands, cultivated lands, fur farm sites, hay meadow land, railroad-rights-of-way, recreational camps, recreational resorts, summer-home sites, telephone and power line rights-of-way, sawmill sites, wharf, boat houses, and boat landings, timber stumpage for logs, posts, poles, ties, pulpwood, box bolts, fuelwood, cabin logs, mine timbers, and piling, maple sugar, Christmas trees.

The Cass Lake, Bena, Blackduck, Marcell, Remer, and Walker Ranger Stations and the headquarters of the Dora Lake subdistrict are located in or near towns of the same names. The Cut Foot Sioux Station is near Little Cut Foot Sioux Lake.


RANGER DISTRICTS
CHIPPEWA NATIONAL FOREST
MINNESOTA


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