Posted: April 6th, 2013 
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An in-depth look at the issue of new mining proposals next door to the Boundary Waters.
 A new Boundary Waters chapbook I edited shares the little details which make each wilderness trip special.  The latest post on my Star Tribune blog. A week ago, I was waking up at my campsite on Lake Insula, in the Boundary Waters. It was going to be another beautiful day, the morning light seemingly soft and quiet. I made coffee and enjoyed the view west across the bay, where an old white pine stood tall over blowdown forest — mostly scrubby balsam and birch. Several miles behind the pine, a column of smoke rose from the horizon. The next morning, the campsite was smoky. It wasn’t unbearable, but made for a scratchy throat. I wondered if we would have to move if the smoke didn’t lift. But by noon, the column was not stretched out toward us, but rose straight  I went on a wilderness canoe trip and spent the whole time watching a forest fire grow, with a massive smoke plume on the horizon at all times.  I spent Thursday and Friday last week playing tour guide in the woods of northern Minnesota, and documented the trip with some photos. |
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