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Join the Boundary Waters Advisory Committee volunteers and friends for
our 2024 Annual Meeting and Volunteer Recognition Dinner at the Dakota Lodge in West St. Paul. This will be a great night to reflect on the many accomplishments in 2023 by all of our hard-working and committed volunteers. Renew connections with your crew mates, trip leaders, and club organizers, while we celebrate another successful year of advocacy, education, and stewardship!
5:30 pm Social
6:00 pm Dinner catered by Prima
Business portion - financial reports and Board of Directors election
Trail Volunteer Recognition and Trips Review slideshow
2024 events and clearing trip plans
Keynote speaker, Cary J. Griffith, returns to speak about his newly released book Gunflint Falling - Blowdown In The Boundary Waters.
Door prizes!
Family and friends are welcome. There is an event registration fee of $10.00 for each attendee to offset facility rental, catered dinner, and to plan for dinner guests. No charge for children under six years of age.
Please RSVP by Thursday, January 25, 2024 on this Meetup site. Questions? Email info@BoundaryWatersTrails.org or call
Lucas @320-282-5873
Cary J. Griffith: Gunflint Falling - Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
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 on Fargo, North Dakota, and damaging land as it crossed the Minnesota border. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm from the perspectives of those who were on the ground before, during, and after the catastrophic event—from first-time visitors to the north woods to returning paddlers to Forest Service Rangers. https://www.carygriffith.com/
The Boundary Waters Advisory Committee (BWAC) is an all-volunteer MN non-profit organization with a mission of advocating for and preserving hiking trails in the BWCAW of the Superior National Forest.