Search and rescue crews evacuated a 9-year-old boy from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Tuesday night after he was injured by a falling tree. The Cook County Sheriff's Office said the ...

is about the 1999 blowdown in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Some estimate that it leveled more than 48 million trees and Bruce Kerfoot, who owned the Gunflint Lodge, told Griffith the ...

Millions of trees blew down in the eighty to 100 mile-per-hour winds. In the early 2000s, PolyMet Mining Corp. and TwinMetals proposed open-pit and copper mines near the Boundary Waters wilderness.

Boundary Waters guide Tom Hartman paddles on Moose Lake near Ely, Minn., after the July 4, 1999, windstorm that blew through northeastern Minnesota. (Forum News Service) Millions of trees bowed ...

If you’re planning to rob a bank in the Midwest, arguably your best escape route is through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ... eagles gliding between trees, and fresh wolf prints on shorelines.

and even injuring a younb boy in the Boundary Waters. Crews worked overnight in Cook County to rescue the boy who was injured by a falling tree. "The crews made it to the campsite, I think it was ...

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 ...

Want to make a trip to the Boundary ... tree is falling to prevent injuries. “It really has become a well-oiled machine,” said Aaron Nosan, a crew member and leader since 2018. Boundary Waters ...