2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 83A - 84 Natural Resources
Chapter 84 Department of Natural Resources
Section 84.43 DEFINITIONS.

84.43 DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1. Applicability. The definitions given in this section shall govern for the
purposes of sections 84.43 to 84.52 unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the language
or context.
Subd. 2. Wilderness area. "Wilderness area" shall mean any of the following areas or
parts thereof:
(1) all those portions of the Superior National Forest described in section 2 of Public Law
733, 80th Congress, approved June 22, 1948, and all public waters included therein or bordering
thereon except the following: Crane Lake, Moose Lake in Township 64 North, Range 9 West,
Snow Bank Lake, Sawbill Lake, Brule Lake, Big Lake in Townships 64 and 65 North, Range 13
West, Saganaga Lake, Seagull Lake, Clearwater Lake in Township 65 North, Range 1 East, and
East Bearskin Lake in Township 64 North, Range 1 East and Range 1 West;
(2) such other areas as may be designated by the commissioner of natural resources as
hereinafter provided within the present boundaries of the Superior National Forest and the
Kabetogama and Pigeon River purchase units thereof as heretofore established by federal
authority and not less than five miles from any public highway.
Subd. 3. Public waters. "Public waters" shall mean all waters lying wholly within the state
and all portions of boundary waters within the jurisdiction of the state contained within any
wilderness areas designated hereunder and which the public have a right to use for navigation,
fishing, hunting or any other beneficial public use.
Subd. 4. Aircraft. "Aircraft" shall mean any contrivance now known or hereafter invented
and used or designed for navigation or flight in the air.
History: 1949 c 630 s 1; 1969 c 1129 art 10 s 2