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April 26, 2018 at 06:15PM

April 26, 2018 By Dave Freeman

As we pedaled down the last few miles of the Munger Trail today and then worked our way south on old HWY 61 I kept thinking about a question that a 6th grader asked us after our presentation last night at the Audubon Center of the North Woods. “Why are you doing this again?” We had told her about our first adventure advocacy project, Paddle to DC, and how we spent 100 days paddling a canoe covered in signatures to Washington D.C. to help protect the Boundary Waters from copper mines being proposed on the edge of our nation’s most popular Wilderness. Now, here we are traveling to DC all over again.

It’s a logical question and there are certainly other things we would rather be doing, like getting ready to go on our first canoe trip in the Boundary Waters as the ice begins to melt. With cars whipping past and the steady cadence of my pedals whirling I came to the conclusion that there are really several reasons that we are “doing this again”. The most important reason is that the Boundary Waters needs our help now more than ever. Paddle to DC, and then our Year in the Wilderness, helped the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters and their partner organizations make a lot of progress towards permanently protecting the Boundary Waters watershed from copper mining, but there is still a lot of work to do. Right now the U.S. Forest Service and the BLM are in the middle of a 2 year scientific review and at the end of 2018 or beginning of 2019 they will decide if copper mining will be allowed in along the edge of the Wilderness, or if the Boundary Waters will remain protected from what the EPA considers our nation’s most polluting industry. A copper mine has never been built anywhere in the world without polluting the water, so a lot is at stake and actions taken during the next year will have ramifications that will last for generations. We can’t stand on the sidelines, we all have to jump in and act. We are putting our skills as adventurers and storytellers to work by Pedaling to DC and inspiring folks across the country to stand up for their public lands and their wilderness by speaking loudly for the BWCA.

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