Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness

12/09/2021

Last Chance to comment:
The Forest Service is considering whether or not to grant permits for an expansion of the Lutsen Ski Resort in the Superior National Forest of Northeastern Minnesota. Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness is opposed to this expansion. The proposed expansion would negatively impact the environment, limit public land access, and violate the rights of the Grand Portage band of Lake Superior Chippewa under the 1854 Treaty. Working with our allies at WaterLegacy, Winter Wildlands Alliance, and Superior Highlands Backcountry, we developed and submitted comments to the Forest Service urging them to reject the proposed expansion.

Check out these helpful links for more information and to personalize and submit your own comment before the December 9 deadline.

https://winterwildlands.org/save-moose-mountain-2021/

https://waterlegacy.salsalabs.org/lutsenskiaction/index.html

https://vimeo.com/453498181

The Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort has applied for a U.S. Forest Service “Special Use Permit” to expand the resort, add 1,260 parking spaces, and affect 495 acres of Superior National Forest public lands.

12/07/2017

The Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, led by Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness, is leading the effort to ensure permanent protection for the Boundary Waters Wilderness, America's most visited Wilderness and Minnesota's crown jewel, from proposed sulfide-ore copper mining. Join us and speak loudly for this quiet place.

Take action: SavetheBoundaryWaters.org/take-action

This is the South Kawishiwi River and the proposed mine sites for the Twin Metals sulfide-ore copper mines located on the edge of the Boundary Waters Wilderness.

Take Action: bit.ly/petitionBWCA

Photo Credit: Brad Carlson

08/02/2017

Check out this broadside created by friend and talented artist Ben Weaver! All donations go to NMW.

Speak Loudly For All Quiet Places: This broadside created by Ben Weaver contains a text excerpt from a poem that he wrote for and read to Explorers Dave and Amy Freeman when he brought them a resupply during their Year in the Wilderness. He says, “I think it is essential to remember why we go to wild places like the BWCA and how they help us to better understand our place on this planet, reminding us of the greater ecosystems to which our lives are connected and depend upon.”

Look for these prints at this weekend's Fisherman’s Picnic in Grand Marais and other upcoming events!

Ben is back in in Minnesota after his Sees Like a River Album release tour, during which he biked 1,7000 miles connecting the Boundary Waters, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River on back roads. Along the way he performed 13 shows and engaged the communities he visiting in conversations around water ethics. He has a show coming up in Minneapolis - RSVP and buy tickets on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2uKT4NJ

06/09/2017

JUST ANNOUNCED: The U.S. Forest Service will be hosting listening sessions in the Twin Cities and Virginia, Minnesota this July. This is a critical time to raise your voice for the Boundary Waters! These listening sessions are an important part of the environmental review process of the BWCA watershed to determine if it is the wrong place for sulfide-ore copper mining. We need YOU to speak loudly for this quiet place. Join us:
July 18, 2017 | Twin Cities - U.S. Forest Service Listening Session
July 25, 2017 | Virginia - U.S. Forest Service Listening Session

06/07/2017

On Monday, we got some good news! Read more below.

05/25/2017

Thank you, Congresswoman Betty McCollum and Secretary Perdue of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ensuring that the two-year science-based environmental review of the Boundary Waters will proceed!

Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.) today received assurances from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue that the Trump administration will proceed with the two-year, science-based study of whether dangerous copper-sulfide ore mining should be permitted on federal lands in the watershed th...

05/12/2017

Take action now! Let US Rep Rick Nolan know that putting the Boundary Waters at risk from sulfide-ore copper mining is outrageous and unacceptable!

The mine was blocked under the Obama administration to protect valuable sockeye salmon stocks.

03/23/2017

Check out Save the Boundary Waters' latest Science Desk Blog - it includes a recap of the first public hearing on the environmental review and more!

Last week, the Campaign and partners gathered in Duluth as part of an official public hearing at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center, to speak up for the protection of the Boundary Waters from sulfide-ore copper mining. Just before the hearing, which was part of the scoping process for the tw...

02/23/2017

Save the Boundary Waters couldn't do all that it does without the support of local, state, and national businesses. Check out the Boundary Waters Business Coalition today!

02/09/2017

Save the Boundary Waters got some great new loon bumper stickers! Donate 3+ dollars today and you'll find one coming your way. See below for more details!

02/01/2017

Take action! Reach out to US Rep Rick Nolan and let him know that you support protecting the Boundary Waters today! See below for details.

We know you love the Boundary Waters and you want to do more to help preserve this amazing Wilderness. Be a Wilderness Warrior and take action each week to protect the BWCA.

01/30/2017

Want to be more involved in the Save the Boundary Waters Campaign? Check out our Wilderness Warriors program!