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Northern Forest Background
For furthern background, open A Brief History of the Northern Forest [PDF format - 108 KB], which spans Native American and European settlement to the region’s rise as the “timber capital of the world” in the late 1800s, through the catalytic “Diamond land sale,” the Northern Forest Lands Council and the founding of the Northern Forest Center.

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