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Boundary Waters Update May, 2026— Protections put in place in 2023 revoked by U.S. Congress & President Trump
In January, 2023, Deb Haaland, then Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, signed Public Land Order 7917, putting federal lands in the Boundary Waters watershed off-limits to federal mineral leasing (and thus mining) for 20 years…