The natural landscape of Minnesota is etched in valleys, prairies, wilderness areas, high bluffs, rocky shores, and thousands and thousands of lakes. For most of its people, the Land of the Sky-Blue Waters is a huge playground--dotted with romantic place-names like Ah-Gwah-Ching (Chippewa for "out-of-doors") and Blooming Prairie and Minnetonka Beach and Sleepy Eye and Lac qui Parle (French for "lake that speaks"). To look after the wildlife that survive on the land, Minnesota has set aside more millions of acres in game refuge areas than any other state has allotted for such preservation and protection.