Fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) was lights out. I mean amazing. Our crew of six men enjoyed all-you-can-eat fresh-caught walleye cooked in a skillet over a wood fire ...

The Trump Administration on Wednesday announced its intentions to cancel a mineral withdrawal on federal lands near the Boundary Waters.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ...

The Senate has asked the House to strike the reversal of the Boundary Waters mineral lease withdrawal from the Big Beautiful Bill.

Provisions that would affect the Boundary Waters were scrapped on concerns they would not pass muster under Senate parliamentary rules.

Sen. Tina Smith was able to raise a red flag on a section in President Trump's budget bill that would have reopened the leases to a mine next to the Boundary Waters.

In 2023, the Department of the Interior put a 20-year ban on all mining activity in the watershed that feeds the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Now Congress is on the cusp of ...

As the Trump administration prioritizes mining in northern Minnesota, conservation groups work to protect the Boundary Waters.

Sen. Tina Smith spoke at a rally to prevent mining in the boundary waters held at the Minnesota the Capitol.

Sen. Tina Smith speaks at a rally to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area from federal moves on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at the Minnesota Capitol.

WASHINGTON - A bill that would permanently protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from sulfide mining was introduced by Sen. Tina Smith in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

U.S. Forest Service officials who oversee the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) once again pleaded with visitors not to stockpile and hoard entry permits as the annual feeding frenzy ...