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State of Minnesota Posters, Photographs, Maps
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geography > NA > US > MW > Minnesota < social studies
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Minnesota, known as the “North Star State”, “Gopher State”, and the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, joined the Union on May 11, 1858 as the 32nd state. The name “minnesota” is from the Dakota Sioux word “minisota” for “sky-tinted water.”
Minnesota, in the West North Central Region, is bordered on the north by Canada, Lake Superior and the upper peninsula of Michigan on the northeast, Wisconsin to the east, the south by Iowa, and the west by North Dakota and South Dakota.
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Common Loons, aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia, is the Minnesota State Bird.
The call of the loon is distinctive: the naturalist John Muir said “one of the wildest and most striking of all the wilderness sounds, a strange, sad, mournful, unearthly cry, half laughing, half wailing.” (listen to loons)
Loons are also prominent in Native American myths and the “loonie” is also the provincial bird of Ontario.
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The Walleye, the Minnesota State Fish, is a freshwater perciform (perch-like) fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States.
Walleyes are a popular food fish and quotas are necessary to insure their survival.
The common name, “walleye”, is from the ability of their eyes to reflect white light. Because of their resulting excellent vision walleyes are found in deeper waters and allows them to see in choppy water conditions.
Walleyes are also the state fish of South Dakota and the official fish of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
• more freshwater fish posters
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Red Pine, also known as Norway Pine, is the State Tree of Minnesota, and native to North America.
A “self pruning” evergreen tree characterized by tall, straight growth, the Red Pine is commercially valuable for timber and paper pulp, and as a landscape tree.
The Red Pine derives its name from the thin, flaky and bright orange-red bark in the upper, conical shaped crown.
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