Minnesota's million-acre (400,000-hectare) Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the second largest wilderness east of the Rockies and surprisingly easy to access. Bill Forsberg, Jr., owner of ...

This legislation builds on years of advocacy by U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, also a Minnesota Democrat, who has championed the ...

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

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

Parts of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota have been temporarily ... due to search and rescue efforts on Iron Lake. The closed areas include land and water ...

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 ...

Still looking for a place to go canoe camping in the Upper Midwest this summer? The surge to book a Boundary Waters Canoe ...

The permits could have allowed Antofagasta’s Twin Metals Minnesota to significantly expand its proposed sulfide-ore copper mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in ... that lie ...

Tina Smith is making preventing new mining near a Minnesota wilderness a priority ... Biden-era mining limits near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Smith, 67, is also looking to pressure ...

On Wednesday, DFL Sen. Tina Smith introduced the "Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act." It marks the first time in 50 ...