Paper birch trunks and limbs litter the forest floor along the Superior Hiking Trail near the Little Manitou River last week. Sights like this are common along the North Shore as acres of paper birch trees have succumbed to drought and disease in the past 25 years. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
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