U.S. Forest Service officials who oversee the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) are once again pleading with visitors not to stockpile and hoard entry permits as the annual feeding frenzy ...

Advocates say mining would create jobs and help the economy; opponents say mining will pollute the precious boundary waters.

Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second ... "With the detailed maps we provide, you should be able to get from point A to point B with ...

Backers and opponents of a proposed copper mine near Ely, Minn., are gearing up for anticipated action from the incoming ...

After former President Obama issued a mining moratorium in 2016, Donald Trump reversed it during his first term -- and ...

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 ...

The "Unleashing America's Energy" order, which Trump signed the day he took office, says undue burdens on mines should be ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness could have looked very ... “It was really the former president and Mrs. Carter who put Habitat on the map,” said Chris Coleman at Twin Cities Habitat ...

Advocates say restoring mining in the boundary waters area would create around 700 jobs and wouldn't pollute the boundary waters. However, opponents like Chris Knopf, the executive director of ...