Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

by Cary J. Griffith

Book Overview

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness's epochal weather disaster

On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Originating over the Dakotas, the midsummer windstorm developed amid unusually high heat and water-saturated forests and moved steadily east, bearing down...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517915570
• ISBN13: 9781517915575
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"