A series of legislative moves would pave the way for a foreign-owned corporation to establish a mine near the most popular ...

The congressman from northeast Minnesota just introduced legislation to nullify a 2023 Biden administration ban.

Rep. Pete Stauber is once again pushing to allow mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — but ...

The Trump administration and U.S. Congress are launching a plan this week to overturn former President Joe Biden's mining ban ...

In 1909, Spanish-American War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient President Theodore Roosevelt established the Superior National Forest “for the use and benefit of the people.” Since then millions of ...

ELY, Minn. — Mining near the Boundary Waters has been a painful debate for a while. Now in Washington, there is another chapter. Senator Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) raised a red flag on a section in ...

ON FARM LAKE NEAR ELY, Minn. — Dave Setterholm steered his motorboat across Farm Lake then cut the engine along the Kawishiwi River near the edge of the Boundary Waters wilderness. Cross into the ...

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Republicans are investigating green groups’ role in the Biden administration’s scrapping of mine leases near the Minnesota wilderness area. House Natural Resources Committee Republicans this week ...

Hal Herring is a Field & Stream contributing editor and the host of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers’ Podcast & Blast. In Hal’s opinion, “The future of the American public lands is as important to our ...