Lovers of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Minnesota s wild northern country may be familiar with the name Sigurd F. Olson.
Olson was born in Wisconsin in 1899, and moved to Ely, Minnesota in 1923 to take a job teaching at the junior college. He went on to pen environmental legislation, become the president of Wilderness Society and the president of the National Park Association, among other accomplishments.
But what really captured Olson s imagination, and propelled him through a lifetime of conservation work, was a love of writing.
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