Trust Lake
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The Backpacker Magazine group that visited Trust Lake in 2010 was not impressed by little Trust Lake. The lake is described as "shallow, turbid" and "full of floating detritus". Sounds like a typically shallow PMA lake that is in the early stages of becoming a peat bog.
On a 1964 map produced by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Trust Lake is shown as Faith Lake. The lake just to the south of Trust Lake is now known as Faith Lake. That lake was once called Hope Lake. Hope Lake is another lake located in the Fungus Lake Primitive Management Area.
The forest around this lake was impacted by the July, 2006 Cavity Lake Fire. This fire burned over 30,000 acres. Fire began on July 13.
A huge fire in 1863 or 1864 known as the Kawishiwi River/Alice Lake/Cypress Lake/Saganaga Lake complex burned the forests in this area.
Just after the turn of the 19th century, in 1801, another fire burned the area stretching from Gabimichigami Lake up through the Saganaga Lake area.
In 1727, area was burned by a fire that covered the region from Amoeber Lake to Sea Gull Lake.
1692 saw another large fire affect this area in what is now the BWCA.
Approach to Trust Lake
Look for the obvious creek mouth in the upper east bay of Nawakwa Lake.
Bushwhack to Trust Lake
You follow the creek upstream from Nawakwa Lake the entire way to Trust Lake. The creek is at least 240 rods (three-quarters of a mile) long. Beaver dams can be expected along the length of this creek. The creek narrows at points to be little more than the width of a canoe, but is navigable the entire way. Moose tracks were sighted in this area by the Backpacker Magazine visitors.
Exploring Trust Lake
A small and quite little lake surrounded by a forest that was destroyed in the 2006 Cavity Lake Fire.
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