We are saddened to share that the House just voted to revoke a mining ban across 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest, including the watershed of Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. "This heartbreaking vote shows that under the Trump administration no place in America is safe from toxic mining, including the spectacular Boundary Waters wilderness," said Marc Fink, a Duluth-based senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Rep. Stauber and everyone who voted for this reckless, unprecedented attack have completely ignored the Forest Service's own science and the overwhelming public support for protecting the Boundary Waters from copper mining. We'll keep fighting this terrible bill in the Senate, and we won't stop until the Boundary Waters are permanently protected from toxic mining." Please stay tuned for more opportunities to stop this by signing up for our email list. Go to the link in our bio and select this post. [Image description: A lynx...