 Beltrami Island State
Forest
Features: 669,000 acres of jack pine,
aspen and vast inaccessible peat lands.
Best Times To Visit: May through June, August
through March.
Birds To Look For:
Northern Goshawk; Ruffed Grouse; Spruce Grouse; Northern Hawk,
Great Gray and Boreal Owls; Black-billed Cuckoo; Whip-poor-will;
Three-toed and Black-backed Woodpeckers; Alder Flycatcher; Boreal
Chickadee; more than 20 species of nesting warblers including
Golden-winged, Cape May, Blackburnian, Pine, Bay-breasted,
Connecticut and
Mourning; Pine and Evening Grosbeaks; Red and White-winged
Crossbills.
 Notes
For Birding The
Area: Forest roads are open
to the public. Thompson Forest Road is highly recommended. A
few secondary roads are gated to protect surfaces during
very wet periods of the spring and fall. Many forest roads
are not plowed in winter. Logging trails may be hiked,
giving good access to remote areas. Campgrounds and picnic
areas can be found here.
Contact: For the west half of the state
forest: Area Forest Supervisor, DNR Forestry, 1101
Lake Street NE, Warroad, MN 56763, (218) 386-1304.
For the east half of the state forest: Area
Forest Supervisor, DNR Forestry, 206 Main Street E.,
Baudette, MN 56623, (218) 634-2172.
www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_forests/sft00005
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