Audio postcard: The flowers of Minnesota's old-growth northern forest
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We occasionally get nature reports from Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo, the authors of "Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers."
Their latest dispatch comes from the Lost 40, a plot of old-growth red and white pines in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota that was never logged due to a surveying error.
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