Eventually, parts of the north will lose many of their trees and resemble a grassland. The Boundary Waters, for example, will become a grassland with scattered oak trees. Trees will turn later in ...

The U.S. Forest Service is facing an expected $500 million budget shortfall that will affect recreation areas including the ...

The U.S. Forest Service will not log in designated wilderness areas like the Boundary Waters, federal officials ... the "removal" and "salvage" of trees, it promotes the more general "removal ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn. – When Lawson Gerdes looks back at plant collections from her field surveys of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, she’s flooded with ...

While some tree species naturally migrate ... Among them: red maple, red oak, basswood and ironwood. “The red maples in the Boundary Waters are dispersing on their own and finding a climate ...

DULUTH — Fires are banned in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness starting ... like leaves, grass, dead trees and twigs on the ground. “This is an unusual time of year for us to have ...

Surviving and dying in the Boundary Waters ... The surging river kept me locked tight against the tree while water poured over my life jacket and upper torso. My legs were under the tree.

Take the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), the ... a high amount of resource damage including "cutting of live trees, human waste not being properly disposed, trash left in campfire ...