Headquartered in Hermantown, Minnesota, Voyageurs Area Council serves Scouts in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The Ka'niss Ma'ingan Lodge is the local Order of the Arrow Lodge for Voyageurs Area Council. Organization Voyageurs Area Council has a staff of nine people. The Council Executive Board through officers are the governing body of the council territory. The board takes action to achieve the purposes of the local council. It establishes the council program, carries out resolutions, establishes and enforces policy and hires a Scout Executive. The council's geographic territory includes 13 counties in Minnesota, three counties in Wisconsin, and one county in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The council is divided into four administrative districts. History Voyageurs Area Council is the successor to the former Lake Superior Council and the Headwaters Area Council. The Ashland Council was formed in 1918. It disbanded in 1920. In 1959, Lake Superior Council was formed from a merger of the North Star Council (northeastern Minnesota) and the Gitchee Gumee Council (northwestern Wisconsin and part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). In 1994, Lake Superior Council merged with the Headwaters Area Council, headquartered in Hibbing, MN, to become the Voyageurs Area Council. Each of those councils had been formed by previous mergers, as depicted below. Camps Camp Horace Johnson Camp Horace Johnson is a wooded area on Island Lake, North of Duluth on St. Louis County Road #4 (Rice Lake Road). Thirty people can be accommodated in the Lodge. Camp Barksdale Camp Barksdale is a wooded area along the south shore of Lake Superior. The entrance is located along State Highway 13, in between Washburn, WI and Ashland, WI. It is used to accommodate Scouting activities throughout the year. Camp Nushka Camp Nushka is of forest on Cass Lake in the middle of the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota. The camp is located next to of forest land that can be used for hiking, pioneering, orienteering, GPSing, skiing, and snowshoeing. The lake can be used for canoeing, fishing, and other water activities. Order of the Arrow Ka'niss Ma'ingan Lodge #196 serves youth in Voyageurs Area Council. The Lodge totem is the wolf, which is featured on the lodge pocket flap patch. The Lodge was formed in 1995 by the merger of Mesabi Lodge (formerly called Little Bear Lodge) and Nahak Lodge #526. Previous to this merger, Nahak Lodge had absorbed Nagadjiwanang Lodge #174 when two councils merged