I've been close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota (at least part of it) when on a vacation drive up the Lake Superior coast toward Grand Portage. But I've never actually been in it. Still, wilderness conservation is important, and mining in the middle of a wilderness is rarely a good idea.
So, applause applause for this move by the Biden administration.
Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining
"Senior officials at the [Interior] department see the wilderness there as a unique place, irreplaceable and easily damaged because of the immense and fragile connections between all the waterways that dot the region. In 2021, the Biden administration launched a scientific analysis, which found mining could cause irreparable damage to the region’s nature and culture, officials said Thursday. It found several examples in the last decade where containment efforts failed and other leaks from mines in the region caused such damage, an Agriculture Department official said."
Worth protecting:
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