Pandemic-fueled surge in visitation to Boundary Waters expected to continue this year
After several consecutive years of hovering right around 25,000 permits issued annually, that number jumped to more than 31,000 last year a 25% increase.
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The U.S. Forest Service s Superior National Forest division posted this photo to Facebook on July 20, 2020, as part of a series of photos highlighting what not to do in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service file
DULUTH Pandemic-fueled surge in visitation to BWCA expected to continue this year. Nearly 166,000 people visited the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness last summer a 16% jump from the previous year and the most in at least a decade, according to a new report from the U.S. Forest Service.
Pandemic-fueled surge in visitation to Boundary Waters expected to continue this year
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DNR again denies review of its own motorized backroad route proposal Up North Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune
The Department of Natural Resources has rejected the latest plea from a citizens group to formally review alleged environmental threats from a proposed 764-mile back-roads driving route that the agency intends to open across northern Minnesota for four-wheel drive owners.
The petitioners are concerned that the so-called Border to Border Touring Route will unduly escalate traffic of high-impact vehicles on natural surface roads that snake through remote forest lands amid pristine waters and sensitive wetlands. The group Citizens for Sustainable Off-Roading foresees harmful sediment getting splattered into fragile trout streams; vehicles sparking forest fires; rare species suffering from environmental damage; vehicles spewing air and noise pollution; the spread of invasive species; and an intensified level of motorized intrusions upon bird-watchers, hunters, s