Commentary: Why Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters opposes this mine in this place

For a decade, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters has worked to defend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for future generations of hunters, anglers, and paddlers.
The BWCA is a federally designated wilderness area that offers some of the most incredible outdoor pursuits in an ecologically and geologically unique landscape. Self-sustaining populations of lake trout, ruffed and spruce grouse lining the woods, loons wailing through the night on nearly every lake; all the best things about northern Minnesota wrapped up in 1.1 million acres of publicly accessible, pristine, protected wilderness.

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