U.S. Department of Agriculture issues clarification after emergency order seeking to expand logging in national forests.

The U.S. Forest Service is facing an expected $500 million budget shortfall that will affect recreation areas including the ...

Representatives Pete Stauber and Betty McCollum, along with Senator Tina Smith have all introduced bills concerning mining ...

The Trump administration seeks to increase timber production on national forest land by 25% and "remove" certain ...

Minnesota may be known for its accent and music icon Prince, but the state is also home to pristine national and state parks, ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is America's most-visited federally designated wilderness area. This 1.1 million–acre expanse is located in the northern third of the Superior National Forest ...

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

WASHINGTON― Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today over its May 2019 renewal of two mineral leases that pave the way for a massive copper mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe ...

On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Tina Smith introduced the Boundary ... Waters. I am prepared to fight with every tool I have to protect one of America’s greatest wilderness areas.” Minnesota ...

Tina Smith is making preventing new mining near a Minnesota wilderness a priority ... make permanent Biden-era mining limits near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Smith, 67, is also ...