Private Land at Edge of Boundary Waters Added to National Forest
Two parcels on Fall Lake have been acquired and transferred to public ownership.
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Bird Populations Plummet in Northern Minnesota’s National Forests
Annual population survey sees sharp drop in numbers, as researchers point to several factors.
Laketrails Base Camp
By Alissa Johnson When Laketrails campers arrive at base camp, costumed counselors greet them, singing and dancing, hooting and hollering, and banging on drums. “We’re famous for our welcomes of campers,” …
State of the Boundary Waters and Paddling to DC – Wilderness News Fall Winter 2014 Issue
Cover Story: How will proposed mining, climate change, invasive species, nutrient loading, and algal blooms change the border lakes? The Quetico-Superior region of Minnesota and Canada bring to mind lake country—a landscape characterized by glacier carved lakes filled with clear, cold and clean water. Yet the list of possible impacts on northern Minnesota water quality is long: proposed mining, climate change, invasive species, nutrient loading, and algal blooms to name just a few…
State of the Boundary Waters
The Quetico-Superior region of Minnesota and Canada bring to mind lake country—a landscape characterized by glacier carved lakes filled with clear, cold and clean water. Yet the list of possible impacts on northern Minnesota water quality is long: proposed mining, climate change, invasive species, nutrient loading, and algal blooms to name just a few. In some places, like Lake of the Woods, evidence suggests that changes are already under way.
Paddle to D.C. Ely Adventurers’ Latest Expedition Carries Concerns About Mining
This epic expedition was inspired by what the Freemans see as an existential threat to a national treasure: mining. “The Boundary Waters is our nation’s most popular wilderness area, it receives a quarter million visitors per year. Every year I guide people in the Boundary Waters from Texas and California and all across the country. We need to make sure people all across the country understand how special the Boundary Waters is and understand the threats it faces.
Paddling on Route 66
by Larry Christianson Paddling season arrived for me with great personal meaning as this is the time where I planned to catch up to my age in the sense of arriving …
Quetico Superior Foundation Board Member Profile: Dodd Cosgrove
Board member since… “It has been long enough that I have lost track. I would guess at least twenty years.” Please tell us what your involvement with the Quetico Superior …
Boundary Waters Advocates Seek Anti-Mining Signatures
Group hopes to deliver at least 50,000 signatures urging protection of the Boundary Waters and businesses that depend on it.
Wolf Hunting Halted, Controversy Continues
After three years of contentious state management, wolves are once again protected by the Endangered Species Act.
Sixty-One Acres Added to Voyageurs National Park
Private property on Rainy Lake has been purchased and will be available for public use and conservation.
Ely Explorers Paddle A Message of Wilderness Stewardship into Nation’s Capital
Dave and Amy Freeman completed their cross-country journey from the Kawishiwi River to the Potomac. Two thousand miles and a hundred days after paddling away from the Voyageur Outward Bound School on the South Kawishiwi River, adventurers Dave and Amy Freeman have made it to Washington, D.C. The pair paddled their canoe – covered in signatures – up to the dock at the Washington Canoe Club this morning in cold, wet conditions.
Video: Time Travel in the Boundary Waters
Watch the day go by with stunning cinematography from the shores of Brule Lake.
Hearing Held About Hearing Snowmobiles in the BWCAW
Lawyers square off over South Fowl trail re-route plan and whether wilderness advocates had enough opportunity to weigh in.
Spending Spring, Summer and Fall in Canoe Country
Minnesota man completes seven-month canoe trip in the Boundary Waters. Gary Fiedler snowshoed into Fall Lake on March 20th and exited Sunday, October 26th, spending a total of 220 nights in the wilderness.
Chilean Conglomerate Rescues Kawishiwi River Mine
Antofagasta will control 100 percent of the massive copper-nickel mine proposal next to the Boundary Waters.
Featured Books: The Wilderness Words of Stephen Wilbers
Boundary Waters history and canoe country adventures flow together in Wilbers’ two recent books.
Photo Round-Up: Fall Beauty In The Quetico-Superior Region
Get inspired by canoe country autumn splendor in these photos recently shared on social media sites. The leaves are blazing in canoe country, sunsets are spectacular, solitude is abundant. Here is a collection of photos from social media we’ve curated to celebrate this beautiful bonanza, and perhaps inspire one more canoe trip this fall:
Protecting Our Wild Rice Heritage
Evaluating Minnesota’s water sulfate standard for wild rice. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is reviewing its standards for protecting wild rice in Minnesota. With funding from the Minnesota State Legislature, the agency conducted a two-year study to determine how sulfate—the presence of which in water has been linked to an absence of wild rice—and other chemicals affect the health of wild rice.