The Biden administration is banning mining for 20 years in a giant watershed near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the president’s latest effort to deliver on conservation ...

The company insists that modern mining methods can protect the boundary waters and, at the same time, create hundreds of new jobs here. It submitted its mining plan for review two years ago.

For those who don’t want mining — or even the whiff of mining — to come anywhere near northern Minnesota’s protected Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the last weeks of the Barack ...

The Boundary Waters is facing a dire threat from proposed sulfide-ore mining within its watershed, less than a mile from the wilderness edge. This type of mining is especially toxic.

President Joe Biden's administration is seeking a 20-year moratorium on mining in Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, restarting a process that started, and ...

Signs supporting mining and the Boundary Waters stand next to each other before a Twin Metals lease renewal public listening session on July 13, 2016, at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. — The ongoing tug-of war over whether mining should be allowed near the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been resurrected with strong opinions on both sides of ...

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, R ...

Dan Kraker, Duluth News Tribune, “Feds reopen forests near Boundary Waters to mining,” MPR News, September 6, 2018, available at https: ...