For the first time since 2008, the U.S. Forest Service is exploring raising overnight permit fees for the Boundary Waters ...

Discover why Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area is the ultimate wilderness escape for summer 2025. Canoes, solitude, and ...

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

Boundary Waters entry fees may more than double The increased revenue from higher fees could be used to address more than $11 million in deferred maintenance.

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 ...

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

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) visitors are preparing for summer visits and planned trips now that the calendar has flipped to June. Some visitors are occasional anglers, utilizing ...

Like the wildly unpopular public land sell-off, the push to remove hard-earned protections from the Boundary Waters could be stripped from the larger budget bill, Leaf says.

Sports Outdoors Dennis Anderson: Anglers should be convinced the Boundary Waters is worth protecting May 23, 2025 Updated Fri., May 23, 2025 at 5:19 p.m.

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

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.

While growing up in Mankato, my first visit to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area was in 1978. What we Minnesotans should be proud of is that after all of these years, the BWCA’s 1.1 million acres ...