The Pioneer Press sent a reporter with little camping experience on a recent trail-clearing trip to get a taste of the ...

A wildfire in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has grown to 27 acres, causing the closure of more areas and portages. According to the U.S. Forest Service, there was a small amount of ...

A wildfire was discovered on an island within the BWCAW as northern Minnesota experiences above-average temperatures and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans might have a chance to see the northern lights on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. It's all thanks ...

Hundreds of feet under the forest floor and next to a quiet river lies what proponents hope will be a foundation of America’s ...

The closure was put in place due to a fire at Wood Lake caused by dry conditions. According to InciWeb, the fire has grown to ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS ... by the fact that an increasing number of young people are moving to northern Minnesota. Another thing that will help: providing more opportunities ...

gray wolves and northern long-eared bats. “In 2016 the U.S. Forest Service found that sulfide-ore copper mining in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters posed an unacceptable risk to the integrity of ...

After an extremely wet summer, Minnesota is trending drier. The U.S. Forest Service has closed 19 campsites and several ...

Advocates against mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters were hit with another setback Tuesday when a Washington, D.C., judge ruled that the Department of the Interior’s return of mineral leases to ...