[Opinion] Local View: Public opinion on Boundary Waters being ignored

Local View: Public opinion on Boundary Waters being ignored

Minnesota’s more than 12 million acres of public lands encompass the Boundary Waters Canoe Areas Wilderness and surrounding Superior National Forest, the Chippewa National Forest, state parks, wildlife refuges, wildlife management areas, aquatic management areas, national parks, national wild and scenic rivers, and more. In 2008, during the Great Recession, when times were tough across the country, Minnesotans overwhelmingly passed the Clean Wat…