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.

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 ...

“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.

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 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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.