A Black Spruce forest in the Rapid River country, Beltrami 



County. Will produce from 80 to 100 cords 



pulpwood per acre. 



and the country responded prodigally to both rifle 

 and shotgun. Few regions in America were more 

 plenteously provided with wild game than that now 

 included in the coniferous region of Minnesota. In the 

 south and west thousands of buffalo ranged on the prai- 

 rie grasses. Up the Minnesota River Valley and far to 

 the northward through the "Big Woods" and along 

 east of the Red River, elk, the finest of America's 

 big deer, were exceedingly abundant. White tail 

 deer were found throughout the hardwood region, as 



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