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

The future of the Boundary Waters continues to be a hot topic of debate among Minnesota legislators, as a new bill that would ...

The U.S. Forest Service will not log in designated wilderness areas like the Boundary Waters, federal officials clarified ...

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U.S. Sen. Tina Smith of Minnesota has introduced legislation to permanently ban mining for copper, nickel and precious metals ...

WASHINGTON - A bill that would permanently protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from sulfide mining was ...

What proponents of mining near the BWCA miss is that some things — pristine water, for example — are more valuable than money ...

It sits near the border of northern Minnesota and Ontario, Canada, in the Superior National Forest, and it drains into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The area was afforded a 20-year ...

While growing up in Mankato, my first visit to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area was in 1978. What we Minnesotans should be proud of is that after all of these years, the BWCA’s 1.1 million acres ...

Trump’s tariffs pause and Supreme Court decisions backing two of his policies were front and center in Washington this week.

The legislation would make permanent a 20-year ban on that type of mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest in the ...

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