Minnesota to return thousands of acres of forest to Fond du Lac Band

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-to-return-thousands-of-acres-of-forest-to-fond-du-lac-band/601850009

A large stretch of forest inside the Fond du Lac Reservation that has been in state hands for more than 100 years will soon be returned to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Minnesota lawmakers enabled the transfer of the 3,400 acres in a bonding bill signed by Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday, resolving a yearslong push by the band and, more recently, by the University of Minnesota to return the land.

The U has housed its Cloquet Forestry Center research complex on the site for more than a century. The land is located entirely within the reservation and was taken from the Fond du Lac by the state after a series of treaty-busting acts in the late 1800s were used to wrest control of valuable timberland.

The band will continue to work with the U to conduct research at the site, he said.

Land back!

[Ocelot II]

1. Excellent!

[Deuxcents]

2. I love the sound of great news in the morning 🌳