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

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

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

ST PAUL, Minn. — Multiple lawmakers from Minnesota have introduced legislation concerning mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness this year. State Representatives Pete Stauber ...

Minn., has introduced a bill to ban copper-nickel mining on nearly a quarter-million acres of federal land in the same ...

Now that U.S. Sen. Tina Smith is not running for re-election, she has introduced legislation this week that "would protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness (BWCA) from the threat ...

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

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Smith emphasizes that her legislation would not ban or restrict existing or potential mining projects outside the Rainy River watershed.

Tina Smith of Minnesota has introduced legislation ... over about 350 square miles within the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Lake Superior College received the state ...