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that are now to be encountered on every hand, may be again experienced 

 on the Menomini reservation. Figures 29 and 30 are typical of the 

 luxuriant plant life found throughout most of the length and breadth of 

 the reservation. The Wolf river, with its branches, flows through the 

 center of the reservation, winding its picturesque way through the very 

 heart of Keshena. At the northern end of the reservation, it forms a 

 beautiful dells, through a sheer rock-cliffed canyon with fine white water- 

 falls, down to two miles below, where occur the Smoky Falls, Na-ta- 



FiG. 30.— The Showy Cypripedium, C. birsiititiu, a rapidly vanishing 

 species, found in profusion in the sphagnum swamps on the Menomini 

 Indian Reservation, Wisconsin. 



nano, and then with current rips down to Big Eddy Falls, shown in fig- 

 ure 2, some eight miles farther. After a five mile journey comes the 

 Keshena Falls, where the current is used to generate electricity for the 

 Keshena lighting system and for its schools and agency buildings. All 

 through this country are fine springs, clear rivulets and brooks, affording 

 the finest of drinking water, as well as an abundant supply of wary brook 

 trout. In the southeastern part of the reservation are several small 

 lakes, that abound in aquatic vegetation and likewise good pickerel and 



