DFL Rep. Alex Falconer advocates for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. DFL Rep. Alex Falconer advocates for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Almanac: At the Capitol is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

ELY, Minn. — Becky Rom has been fighting to protect the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since she was in middle school. As the granddaughter of a miner and the daughter of a pioneer in ...

ST. PAUL — Minnesota legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The bill seeks to ban mining ...

Democratic legislators have introduced a bill to bar copper-nickel mines from developing within the same watershed as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The bill ...

Lukas Leaf has been camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for decades, but he fears that pressure on the environmental protections that have long kept the famed Minnesota waterway from ...