The “Lost 40”, in Chippewa National Forest, is an area that was inadvertently uncharted by surveyors in the late 1800s. As a result, it’s one of the oldest areas of forest in the Midwest, USA, containing trees nearly 400 years old. [OC] [3110×2073]
Picture found by the Ditpub “Beautiful World” searcher.
Original was/is available from http://i.imgur.com/8lwgRWT.jpg
Some learning, selected for this occasion 🙂
The Ojibwe (also Ojibwa), or Chippewa, are a large group of Native Americans and First Nations in North America.
A forest is a large area of land covered with trees or other woody vegetation. Hundreds of more precise definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing and ecological function.
Published by DitPub on 2016-02-06 21:51:25, under the category “Beautiful World”
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