Voyageurs National Park: A Land of Lakes - December 17, 2016

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1. 0:00The state of Minnesota is known as the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.
2. 0:08Our national park this week protects four major ones.
3. 0:15The National Park Service says water is the foundation of this wild and remote place.
4. 0:24Welcome to Voyagers National Park.
5. 0:30You must have a strong desire to see voyagers to make the visit.
6. 0:38It is not an easy place to get to.
7. 0:42Much of the park is accessible only by boat.
8. 0:46The voyagers for whom the park was named understood this well.
9. 0:56Voyager is a French word meaning traveler.
10. 1:01In the 1700s, French Canadian fur traders started coming
11. 1:08to the area seeking beaver fur and other animal coats.
12. 1:15The product was in great demand in Europe.
13. 1:20The fur traders traveled to and from the area for business.
14. 1:26They took canoes to get around.
15. 1:31The boat trips were often long and hard.
16. 1:35The waters and wild animals created great dangers.
17. 1:43Voyager life became legendary.
18. 1:46The men were seen as brave adventurers, but they were also romantics.
19. 1:54They became known for singing songs as they navigated the waterways.
20. 2:02Of course, the Voyagers were not the first people people in the area that is now Voyager's National Park.
21. 2:11People first arrived there about 10 ,000 years ago.
22. 2:17They were mostly nomadic and did not settle permanently.
23. 2:24In the last 1 ,000 years, Native American tribes settled in the area,
24. 2:32including the Cree, Monsoni, and Essiniboine.
25. 2:38The Ojibwa were the residents of more modern times.
26. 2:43They served as guides to the fur traders.
27. 2:47They also provided canoes and other important items.
28. 2:54Voyager's National Park covers almost 88 ,500 hectares.
29. 3:03About About half of that surface is water.
30. 3:08Creating the park was a long and difficult process.
31. 3:13Minnesota state lawmakers first proposed the idea in 1891.
32. 3:22But it was 80 years before Congress established the park.
33. 3:27President Richard Nixon signed the bill that finally established voyagers
34. 3:34as a national park in 1971.
35. 3:41The park protects four major Minnesotan lakes.
36. 3:48Rainy Lake, Cabotogama,
37. 3:51Namakan, and Sand Point.
38. 3:54Rainy is the biggest.
39. 3:58It covers about 930 square kilometers.
40. 4:05It is a popular fishing lake.
41. 4:09Fishers may catch walleye, northern pike, and smallmouth bass.
42. 4:17In the winter, thick ice covers Rainy Lake.
43. 4:21Visitors can walk and drive on it.
44. 4:27Rainy Lake meets with Namekin and Kabatogama Lakes at Kettle Falls.
45. 4:34A dam was built on the Falls in the early 20th century.
46. 4:41Along with it came the Kettle Falls Hotel.
47. 4:46It housed traders, loggers, and visitors searching for gold in the area.
48. 4:55The hotel fell into disuse in more modern times,
49. 4:59but in 1987 the National Park Service made repairs and improvements
50. 5:08to the building.
51. 5:10It is the only indoor place to stay in the area.
52. 5:16Nature and art meet at the Ellsworth Rock Gardens in Voyagers National Park.
53. 5:25Park officials describe the gardens as the showplace of Lake Cabotogama.
54. 5:34A carpenter and artist from Chicago named Jack Ellsworth built a summer home
55. 5:42on the lake in the 1940s.
56. 5:46He then designed, built, and cared for the rock gardens over 20 years.
57. 5:55The artist also created garden sculptures from native stone.
58. 6:01There were once about 200 rock sculptures.
59. 6:08Ellsworth stopped caring for the gardens in his older age.
60. 6:14When the National Park Service took control of the land, the gardens needed repair and restoration.
61. 6:24Today, it is an interesting place to visit within the park.
62. 6:30Voyagers National Park may be best seen at night.
63. 6:37Officials there like to say that half of the park comes out after dark.
64. 6:45Certainly much of its magic does.
65. 6:50The most spectacular light display on earth is sometimes visible at voyagers.
66. 6:58The aurora borealis, or northern lights, appear periodically in the night sky,
67. 7:07as streaks or clouds of light.
68. 7:12The lights are most often white or soft green.
69. 7:18However, they sometimes deepen into colors like yellow, red, blue,
70. 7:26and even purple.
71. 7:29The northern lights are not always immediately recognizable, but keep watching.
72. 7:38If the light you see comes and goes, or intensifies over time,
73. 7:44you may be witnessing the aurora borealis.
74. 7:50Along with the northern lights, voyagers is a great place to see meteors.
75. 7:59These bursts of light cross the area's black skies mostly
76. 8:05in August during the Perseids meteor shower.
77. 8:10Meteors, often called shooting stars,
78. 8:15form when pieces of ice and dust cross into Earth's atmosphere and begin
79. 8:23to burn brightly.
80. 8:26The display of natural fireworks is a great way to finish the day at Voyager's National Park.
81. 8:35You can fall asleep under the stars and be sure
82. 8:40that more extraordinary nature awaits you when day breaks in Voyager's National Park.
83. 8:50I'm Katie Weaver.
84. 8:51And I'm Ashley Thompson.