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Aquatics
Situated along the Continental Divide, the Chippewa National Forest is at the headwaters of two major drainages: The Mississippi River and Hudson Bay. Nineteen watersheds lace the forest with 400,000 acres of open water (1,300 lakes - including three of Minnesota's five largest!), 923 miles of streams and over 400,000 acres of wetlands. Nationally, the Chippewa includes thirteen percent of the water found in the entire National Forest system. The Forest - which is actually half water, has the highest ratio of water to land in the Eastern Region of the Forest Service.
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