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Feds Put 20-year Ban on Mining Near Boundary Waters

On Thursday, January 26, Secretary of the Department of Interior (DOI) Deb Haalland signed Public Land Order 7917, effectively prohibiting all hard rock mining operations within a 225,504-acre swath of land inside the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota. The order is designed to protect the famed Boundary Waters Canoe…
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