Conservation at Bowen Lodge


Bowen Lodge is a committed partner in resource management. We are dedicated to the environmental efforts that will provide an enjoyable "Up North" experience for our valued guests, while ensuring a sustainable land use for future generations.

Bowen Lodge is an eighty-acre oasis of private land located within the boundaries of the Chippewa National Forest. Our plant community is mainly composed of old growth maple, oak, and basswood trees. It is a climax deciduous forest, which means that it has been left undisturbed over thousands of years. The Nature Conservancy has recognized this area as a rare and endangered forest type, which will be protected forever as a designated preserve known as the Battle Point Research Natural Area (RNA).

We pride ourselves on being a high acreage, low density resort and in order to preserve this beautiful place, Bowen lodge participates in efforts to support sustainability including: LED lighting, low flow toilets, peat filtration septic system, energy star appliances, peak shave water heaters, and we are always looking for more ways to protect our environment. We are also proud of our amazing low mineral, pure, drinkable deep ground water. In an effort to reduce plastic waste, we encourage our guests to drink and enjoy our phenomenal tap water. We believe it is the best in the world.

There are two main points, or peninsulas, Sugarbush Point and Battle Point, both names stemming from our rich Native American history. Sugarbush Point was where the Ojibwa gathered each spring to tap the large maple trees. Many of these majestic trees are still living, and can be recognized by their wide, swollen bases, a result of the yearly harvest of syrup.

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Local Partnerships

Each year we participate in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources lake census for Lake Winnibigoshish and Cut Foot Sioux, which provides us with a detailed understanding of the health of our fishery.

We completed a milestone project, in private partnership with the DNR and the USFS, to stabilize 4500 feet of eroding shoreline on Bowen’s Flats, right in front of the resort. As a result of this management, we will control the effects of erosion caused by high water, ice, and wave action. It will also provide new walleye spawning habitat, promote valuable weed-bed growth, protect our shoreline buffer zone, and save a treasured bald eagle nesting site.

Another milestone was met in 2006 with the addition of a state of the art, peat filtration septic system. To learn more, read the article "Bowen's Goes Green With New Septic System".

Bowen Lodge has and will always continue to be strong participants in resource management and conservation. These are small, yet monumental steps in the effort to keep our lakes clean, healthy and vibrant.

 

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