On Thursday, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters purchased a full-page ad in the Duluth News Tribune, battling back against U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan’s effort to undo a moratorium on mining on federal ...

Biden halts new mining near Boundary Waters for 20 years The administration is bringing back an Obama-era decision, later reversed by Trump, that bans new mineral leases on 225,500 acres of the ...

In a 2018 opinion piece in MinnPost , he called restrictions on mining near the Boundary Waters “one of the most important federal decisions affecting this special place since the signing of the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Kawishiwi River flows near Ely, Minn., in June 2019. Twin Metals is proposing to build an underground copper-nickel mine near Ely and close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The application from the U.S. Forest Service would ban new mining on about 350 square miles of the Superior National Forest within the Rainy River watershed, which flows into the Boundary Waters.

[UPDATE: The U.S. Dept. of the Interior will be accepting public comments on a proposal to renew two mining leases adjacent to the Boundary Waters through Jan. 30, 2019.] Every year, over 150,000 ...

Vilsack: The Boundary Waters is a natural treasure, special to the 150,000 who canoe, fish, and recreate there each year, and is the economic life blood to local business that depend on a pristine ...

Conservation, hunting and angling groups are battling back against U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan’s effort to undo a moratorium on mining on federal land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.