The Boundary Waters were parched, too: the period June 1-19 was the driest ever in northeast Minnesota ... the towering trees would have been lost to fire long ago. All of which changed beginning ...

Plenty of people organize their own trips into the BWCA, but it’s far easier to let Ely, Minnesota-based Boundary Waters Outfitters ... eagles gliding between trees, and fresh wolf prints ...

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

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the recovery effort is now underway amid the weekslong fight to contain several wildfires near ...

A team of Colorado River Fire Rescue’s wildland firefighters is on the ground in northern Minnesota this week, helping to ...

The Boundary Waters Advisory Committee invites volunteers to join their crews on multiday trail-clearing journeys to make sure hikers in the northern Minnesota ... and fallen trees along the ...

In this episode of the Boundary Waters Podcast we talk to Chris Evavold, longtime BWCAW paddler and advocate for wild places.

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

Minnesota has its ... to 100 mph swept through the Boundary Waters during Independence Day weekend in 1999, resulting in roughly 60 campers injured by falling trees. High winds moved through ...

The Biden administration is banning mining for 20 years in a giant watershed near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the president’s latest effort to deliver on conservation ...

The Minnesota State Capitol rotunda was full for a rally to prevent mining in the Boundary Waters on Thursday May 8th. The rally was organized by multiple organizations including Sportsmen for the ...

On Monday morning, authorities recovered the body of Reis Melvin Grams, 40, of Lino Lakes, Minnesota, west of the Curtain Falls in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, according to a Facebook post from ...