U.S. Forest Service officials who oversee the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) are once again pleading with visitors not to stockpile and hoard entry permits as the annual feeding frenzy ...

After former President Obama issued a mining moratorium in 2016, Donald Trump reversed it during his first term -- and ...

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 ...

Camp Menogyn was where Arneson got into canoe tripping. When she was 18, she went on a 50-day paddle journey through Nunavut, ...

President Trump has long been on the record to undo the Biden administration's ban on mining and there are several ways Trump can do that – administratively and through Congress. But the ...

Thru-hikers looking to tackle the 65-mile Border Route Trail and the 39-mile Kekekabic Trail in northeastern Minnesota will ...

The Ely Echo weekly newspaper and its companion pieces - North Country SAVER and North Country ANGLER - provide insight into ...

Imagine a place where you can paddle through stunning lakes, hike through trails, and sleep under a canopy of stars. Yeah, you can probably think of a few spots. But nothing compares to this Minnesota ...

The fishing season for stream trout in lakes outside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness opened this past Saturday. The ...

Backers and opponents of a proposed copper mine near Ely, Minn., are gearing up for anticipated action from the incoming ...

The permits could have allowed Antofagasta’s Twin Metals Minnesota to significantly expand its proposed sulfide-ore copper mine at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern ...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness could have looked very different if it wasn’t for what former President Jimmy Carter championed while in office. With a stroke of the pen more than 40 ...