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.

“We’re also celebrating the victory.” Interior said it is still reviewing whether to institute a 20-year administrative ban on mining near the Boundary Waters, a process that began in October.

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.

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 in President ...

DNR wants further Boundary Waters protections from mining, but says Legislature must weigh in, too The agency said the rules were “largely protective” of the wilderness but could be bolstered ...

The U.S. Forest Service, which has steadfastly rejected sulfide-ore copper mining on federal lands in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters since 2016, is preparing an environmental analysis that ...

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 ...