The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is America's most-visited federally designated wilderness area. This 1.1 million–acre expanse is ... Unfortunately the Boundary Waters watershed is currently ...

The mine is on a rare slice of industrially zoned land and for some, curiously adjacent to the most protected zoning category, a wilderness area called the Siamese Ponds. The Adirondack Park Land ...

Just hours into his second term, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order called “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary ...

WASHINGTON― Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today over its May 2019 renewal of two mineral leases that pave the way for a massive copper mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe ...

Geological studies in the area determined that it possessed a low potential for deposits of metallic mineral resources, so it was not disrupted by heavy mining. Consequently, most early visitors ...