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Can nature advocates save threatened Boundary Waters wilderness – again?

  • Written by Char Miller, W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pomona College
imageResidents near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota and many others are concerned of the impact of mining in its headwaters. atbaker/flickr, CC BY-NC

The celebrated Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northeastern Minnesota, which constitutes one million acres of the Superior National Forest, is among the most...

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