Slideshow: Boundary Waters Blowdown: 10 years later
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Ten years after millions of trees blew down in Minnesota's pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the forest is in the midst of a comeback.
Read more about the area's regrowth a decade after the July 4, 1999, storm that flattened more than 400,000 acres of forests.
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