A group of Iowa youth soothe their muscles in the clean, cool, wilderness waters of a small cascading waterfall in ...
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill on Jan. 21 to ban sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters while advocacy groups and University of Minnesota students worry for the ...
A rainbow rises over the South Arm of Knife Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in July 2021. EMILY BRIGHT: We are entering that time of year when adventurous Minnesotans start answering ...
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, located in Minnesota, is under threat from a proposed copper mine. The Trump Administration plans to revoke a mineral ban on federal lands near the Boundary ...
GRAND MARAIS — Most people who visit the 1.1-million-acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, and Quetico Provincial Park, just across the Ontario border, probably don’t think much about danger and ...
The U.S. Forest Service will not log in designated wilderness areas like the Boundary Waters, federal officials clarified, days after issuing an emergency order intended to boost logging on national ...
The Department of Interior announced yesterday that it has withdrawn approximately 225,504 acres of public lands in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest from federal mine leasing programs. This move ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., has introduced a bill to ban copper-nickel mining on nearly a quarter-million acres of federal land in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe ...
WASHINGTON — Provisions in proposed federal legislation would limit enforcement of a mining ban in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and return a pair of mineral leases ...
The beloved Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of northern Minnesota is not only revered for its beauty but also for what we don't see. Deep underground lay some of the richest untapped mineral ...
A record 10,245 paddlers canceled their permits to enter the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness last year, leaving U.S. Forest Service managers concerned that people are snapping up more permits ...