Grants 2023

Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters

Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
Photo: Steve Piragis - Amy Yoelin
GRANT NAME:
Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters
GRANTEE:
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
LOCATION
Minnesota
AMOUNT
$50,000
Year
2023

Protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (1.1 million acres), Voyageurs National Park (218,200 acres), and Canada’s Quetico Provincial Park (1.18 million acres) from sulfide-ore copper mining pollution through a ban on this type of mining in the watershed/headwaters of these treasured wild lands.