The Boundary Waters is the largest wilderness area east of the Rocky Mountains. It spans more than 1 million acres along the U.S.-Canada border and is filled with forests, glacial lakes and streams.

The Boundary Waters is the largest wilderness area east of the Rocky Mountains. It spans more than 1 million acres along the U.S.-Canada border and is filled with forests, glacial lakes and streams.

Boundary Waters achieves "Wilderness Quiet Park" status 00:31. MINNEAPOLS --A cool new title has been bestowed upon Minnesota's largest and most remote wilderness area.

The Biden administration is banning mining for 20 years in a giant watershed near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the president’s latest effort to deliver on conservation ...

A provision that would have issued perpetual mineral leases near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been struck from the House budget bill. It’s the latest victory in a monumental effort by ...

Mondale said he discovered the Boundary Waters at the age of 21 and strove to paddle in that wilderness every summer thereafter. At a dinner for conservationists, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter told me ...

A company whose proposal for a mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has been blocked by the federal government now wants to do exploratory drilling at a new site nearby. The ...

Fishing in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) was lights out. I mean amazing. Our crew of six men enjoyed all-you-can-eat fresh-caught walleye cooked in a skillet over a wood fire ...

A wildfire is burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), prompting the closure of some campsites, portages and lakes. The US Forest Service said in a press release the fire was ...

Feb. 12, 2025 Updated Wed., Feb. 12, 2025 at 5:29 p.m. Boaters steer their canoes through a channel in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness near Ely, Minnesota.