U.S. Department of Agriculture issues clarification after emergency order seeking to expand logging in national forests.

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The U.S. Forest Service will not log in designated wilderness areas like the Boundary Waters, federal officials clarified ...

The future of the Boundary Waters continues to be a hot topic of debate among Minnesota legislators, as a new bill that would ...

Minn., has introduced a bill to ban copper-nickel mining on nearly a quarter-million acres of federal land in the same ...

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota has introduced legislation to permanently ban mining for copper, nickel and precious metals ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is America's most-visited federally designated wilderness area. This 1.1 million–acre expanse is located in the northern third of the Superior National Forest ...

It sits near the border of northern Minnesota and Ontario, Canada, in the Superior National Forest, and it drains into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The area was afforded a 20-year ...

Even though Republicans control both chambers and the White House, Smith wants to rally colleagues around legislation that would make permanent Biden-era mining limits near the Boundary Waters ...

Representatives Pete Stauber and Betty McCollum, along with Senator Tina Smith have all introduced bills concerning mining ...