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〕 | lat_d = 47 | lat_m = 14 | lat_s = 23 | lat_NS = N | long_d = 95 | long_m = 12 | long_s = 27 | long_EW = W | area_unit = acre | area_imperial = 32690 | area_round = 0 | established = 1891 | management_body = Minnesota Department of Natural Resources | map_locator = Minnesota | map = Minnesota Locator Map with US.PNG | map_caption = Location of Itasca State Park in Minnesota | category_iucn = IV | category_iucn_note = }} Itasca State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The park spans of northern Minnesota, and is located about north of Park Rapids, Minnesota and from Bagley, Minnesota. The park is part of Minnesota's Pine Moraines and Outwash Plains Ecological Subsection and is contained within Clearwater, Hubbard, and Becker counties.〔 Itasca State Park was established by the Minnesota Legislature on April 20, 1891, making it the first of Minnesota's state parks and second oldest in the United States, behind Niagara Falls State Park. Henry Schoolcraft determined Lake Itasca as the river's source in 1832. It was named as a National Natural Landmark in 1965, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. About 500,000 people visit Itasca State Park annually. ==History== Approximately 7–8,000 years ago, Native American hunters pursued wild animals for food in the Itasca State Park region. These early people ambushed bison, deer, and moose at watering sites and killed them with stone–tipped spears.〔 The Bison Kill site along Wilderness Drive in the park gives visitors historical insight about this period. A few thousand years later, a group of people of the Woodland Period arrived at Lake Itasca. They lived in larger, more permanent settlements and made a variety of stone, wood, and bone tools. Burial mounds from this era can be seen today at the Itasca Indian Cemetery. In 1832 Anishinaabe guide Ozawindib led explorer Henry Schoolcraft to the source of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca. It was on this journey that Schoolcraft, with the help of an educated missionary companion, created the name Itasca from the Latin words for "truth" and "head" (''veritas caput'').〔Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, ''Itasca''. 2007. 22 April 2007 Established in 1909, Itasca Biological Station and Labs (IBSL) is one of the oldest and largest continuously-operated inland field training centers in the United States.〔''The Wildest Classroom in Minnesota'', Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories, http://cbs.umn.edu/itasca/.〕 This site serves as a research facility and a site for summer-session undergraduate field biology courses for the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences. Each year new College of Biological Sciences students attend the "Nature of Life" orientation program which is held by the lake, allowing the study of a diverse, undisturbed environment from the organismal level to that of an entire ecosystem.〔http://www.cbs.umn.edu/alumni/ibs〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Itasca State Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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