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Lost 40

The Lost Forty (or Lost 40) is 144 acres of old-growth pine forest located in Minnesota that was preserved due to a surveying error during the Public Land Survey in 1882.

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The Lost Forty (or Lost 40) is 144 acres of old-growth pine forest located in Minnesota that was preserved due to a surveying error during the Public Land Survey in 1882.

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