Project 2025 is a proposed platform for the next president that was organized by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. The project has been disavowed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, even though some of his former cabinet members helped assemble it and he has praised their work on it previously. Democrats have helped raise the profile of Project 2025 with frequent criticism of its contents, and say it must be viewed as a blueprint for a possible second Trump presidency. One paragraph in the nearly 900-page document calls for the president's administration to abandon the "withdrawal" of land for mineral leasing that President Joe Biden's administration ordered in 2023, which was meant to protect the Superior National Forest for 20 years. Story by Louis Krauss. Photo by Anthony Soufflé / Star Tribune.