Carlos Avery

Carlos Avery, a 1881 graduate of Hutchinson (MN) HS was Minnesota's first game and fish commissioner (1917-1923), and a staunch advocate for enlarging refuge areas. His efforts led to President Franklin Roosevelt's designation for the Superior Forest reserve as a national game refuge in the 1930s.

Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area (WMA), thirty miles north of the Twin Cities, was originally purchased by the Minnesota Conservation Commission in 1933 and was established as a WMA to support wildlife and public hunting.

Carlos Avery WMA has two separate management units-the Sunrise Unit east of I-35 and the Carlos Avery Unit to the west of I-35. The Columbus addition will be added to the Carlos Avery Unit at the western end of 167th Avenue.