Minnesota Environmental Partnership

Thanks to our friends at Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness for carrying on the fight for clean water!

The U.S. Senate voted to strip federal protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The story they want us to believe is that the path is cleared for a Chilean mining company to build a copper-sulfide mine within one of our state’s most iconic and beloved watersheds.

But the fight is far from over. It's just moved to Minnesota.

Watch this webinar where MCEA and Friends of the Boundary Waters' experts discuss how to leverage our state laws and authority to protect our water, what comes next in this ongoing battle, and how you can help.

https://loom.ly/LTUyYao

We're pleased that the divided Legislature came together to pass these conservation investments before the deadline. Minnesotans created the Outdoor Heritage Fund with the expectation that it be put to good use improving our forests, prairies, and waters every year.

Conservation projects approved before legislative deadline • Minnesota Reformer Conservationists feared the vote might not happen due partisan squabbling in the 67-67 deadlocked Minnesota House.