Last month I had the pleasure of accompanying five middle school and high school girls on a five-day trip to YMCA Camp ...

This series by retired outdoors writer Rich Landers revisits notable adventure stories that shaped his 40-year career at The Spokesman-Review. Next week: Getting out with kids My dad gave me an ...

U.S. Forest Service officials said Sunday recent wildfires in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area started due to lightning strikes. Thunderstorms moved through the BWCA on June 4. Last month, Crow Wing ...

Two new wildfires have been reported in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA), according to the U.S. Forest Service-Superior National Forest. One of the fires is located near the east end of Lac La ...

In her May 19 commentary in the News Tribune, MiningMinnesota Executive Director Julie Lucas, a lobbyist for the copper mining industry, glossed over what is really happening in the watershed of the ...

The Minnesota Air Rescue Team completed a nighttime hoist rescue for the first time. Two people in the Boundary Waters called for help last week after their canoe capsized and their gear was lost. The ...

Funding for a program that has taken hundreds of Minnesota youths camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and taught outdoor skills to thousands more was cut just days before the end of ...

The Boundary Waters were ceded to the Anishinaabe people in the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe. The land, once promised to them, will be used for sulfur mining. A 50-49 U.S. Senate decision overturned a ...

President Donald Trump has lifted a federal ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, clearing the way for a South American company eyeing the region’s precious metals to ...

President Donald Trump signed Rep. Pete Stauber’s (R) legislation overturning the 20-year mining ban in the Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) on Monday.

A proposed copper mine in northern Minnesota has become a battleground for politicians and environmentalists — and a pressing reason to explore the waterways. The Boundary Waters is the most heavily ...