Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness

Protect the Boundary Waters from Sulfide Mining builds on the advocacy momentum and awareness established over the past fifteen years of proposed copper sulfide mining in Minnesota. The next phase of our campaign is to gather the needed research and depositions to help ensure the long-term ecological and economic well-being of the region are protected. This form of mining, never before done in Minnesota but catastrophic elsewhere will put the wilderness and its two watersheds at risk of devastating contamination from acid mine drainage.