Paddling at sunset in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. (Photo by Hansi Johnson) ...

Provisions in proposed federal legislation would limit enforcement of a mining ban in the same watershed as the Boundary ...

A proposed copper mine, backed by Chilean mining conglomerate, is slated for public lands immediately upstream of Boundary ...

Copper mining in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters is a terrible idea. Why would we ever mine in a place that is almost as much ...

From the column: "(A) sulfide-mining proposal threatens the very lifeblood of the Boundary Waters and northern Minnesota: ...

The Interior Department reinstated a legal opinion Thursday that lets a copper and nickel mining project to proceed despite pushback.

Not this place. The Boundary Waters are too precious. See you in court." In 2023, President Biden banned mining over approximately 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest.

Some supporters of the BWCA say they are against mining in the area as well. "We're pro clean water, we're not anti mining," Chris Knopf, Executive Director of Friends of the Boundary Waters, said.

ELY, Minn. — Mining near the Boundary Waters has been a painful debate for a while. Now in Washington, there is another chapter. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) raised a red flag on a section ...

Leaders from Trout Unlimited and Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters weigh in on the potential impacts of President Trump's Executive Order fast-tracking mining on public lands Von: Travis Hall 25.

MINNEAPOLIS – 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 ...

The provisions in the U.S. House's version of an environmental appropriations bill come as the Trump administration seeks to ...