Ben Strege helps get people into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. But after the news last week that trip fees there could substantially increase, the part-time wilderness guide said he ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration ...

The bill has already passed in the House and is now facing pushback in the Senate, where one Minnesota senator is celebrating ...

The Senate has asked the House to strike the reversal of the Boundary Waters mineral lease withdrawal from the Big Beautiful Bill. 743K ; 204K ; 62K ; 108K ; Search for: Search for: Hunting. Big Game ...

The bill wouldn’t ban or curtail any existing or potential mining projects in Minnesota outside those ... all but ensuring the effort to include the Boundary Waters in the Senate version will ...

The bill would have stripped protections from the Boundary Waters watershed, ... MN 56501 | 218-847-3151 | ISSN 2834-5002 ...

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Minnesota wildfire in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been 100% contained. Suppression of the 13-acre fire has been complicated because of its remote location.

The National Incident Management Organization announced the Horse River fire was 100% contained as of Sunday. The fire, which spread to 13 acres, had to be fought by firefighters who rappelled from ...

Mischief has been slipped into the federal budget bill, including a provision to strip the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of its current 20-year protection and award mining permits to ...

For him, traveling alone in the Boundary Waters was no big deal. He did it many times.” High temperatures in the BWCAW on May 8 were forecast to touch 70, with bluish skies.

Students from Voyageurs Expeditionary High School in Bemidji learned outdoor skills this week that will help prepare them for a trip to the Boundary Waters in July.