Moose River Plains

Spanning Herkimer and Hamilton Counties, the Moose River Plains Wild Forest offers an array of activities, including camping, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, hunting, and canoeing. Free campsites are accessible from late May to December’s end. Winter highlights snowmobiling along the Limekiln Lake-Cedar River Road linking Inlet and Indian Lake. Must-visit spots encompass Cedar River Flow, Moose-spotting at Helldiver Pond, scenic Wakely Mountain with its firetower, as well as numerous smaller ponds and lesser-known trails. This diverse landscape caters to a range of outdoor pursuits, making it a year-round destination for nature enthusiasts and adventurers.

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Moose Plains 1952

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This video shows what the area around Helldiver Pond and Ice House Pond looked like at Moose River Plains in 1952.

Wakely Dam (1942 vs. 2017)

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75 years earlier if you were to go to Wakely Dam, the Cedar River Flow would look somewhat different as the original dam was about eleven feet higher, flooding a bit more of the surrounding land. They're also would have been several more buildings and shanties where the Gould Paper Company had their operations for this portion of Moose River Plains, and a larger cleared area. But overall, the Wakely Dam areas hasn't changed that dramatically over the years.

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NPR

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word ‘squaw’ from federal lands : NPR

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally declared "squaw" to be a derogatory term Friday and ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal lands that use the word.

The order, which takes effect immediately, stands to affect more than 650 place names that use the term, according to figures from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.