And since the majority of the Boundary Waters is off limits to motor boats, the lakes there have a quiet that can be somewhat disconcerting to those of us who grew up thinking that every Minnesota ...
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) reintroduced a bill on Jan. 21 to ban sulfide-ore copper mining in the Boundary Waters ...
Northern Minnesota Republican Congressman Pete Stauber has reintroduced legislation to overturn a 20-year mining ban near the ...
U.S. Forest Service officials who oversee the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) once again pleaded with visitors ...
The Fernberg Project road corridor stretches 15 miles east of Ely. The project includes mixed land ownership encompassing ...
We know in a water-rich environment that we will have pollution in the boundary waters." Next, we are expected to see dueling legislation from two Minnesota members of Congress. Republican ...
and cobalt resources that are abundant in northeast Minnesota.” Knopf says Friends of the Boundary Waters’ legal team is “ready to go to court” — and will lobby state lawmakers for BWCA ...
Republican control in Washington could open the way for copper nickel mining efforts near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area ...
On average, 150,000 to 160,000 people visit the Boundary Waters each year. This year’s bookings began on Jan. 29. Tens of thousands of people in Minnesota and across the country were on their ...
The bill would also return two key federal mineral leases to Twin Metals Minnesota, the company vying to build an underground mine for copper and nickel near Ely In this file photo from 2010 ...