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An old jack pine forest on Seagull Lake at the end of the Gunflint Trail in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Jack pine is on the decline in Minnesota. It needs fire to release its seeds. But summers in the BWCAW have been too humid and wet for fire.
Photo Courtesy of Lee Frelich
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