This legislation builds on years of advocacy by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, also a Minnesota Democrat, who has championed the ...

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 ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Multiple lawmakers from Minnesota have introduced legislation concerning mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this year. State Representatives Pete Stauber ...

Wide swaths of several wilderness areas, like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, were included in that acreage total, and a map accompanying the order made no distinction between ...

Tina Smith, D-Minn., has introduced a bill to ban copper-nickel mining on nearly a quarter-million acres of federal land in the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tina Smith introduced the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act, legislation that would permanently ban new sulfide ore mining on 225,504 acres of federal forest ...

“There are so many great trips outside the Boundary Waters that are beautiful, fun and free, with no permit hassles,” said ...