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March 04, 2016 at 09:04AM

March 4, 2016 By Dave Freeman

Wilderness provides the time and space to wrap our heads around larger issues. Skiing or paddling, engulfed in the silent, steady rhythm of travel is a wonderful way to clear your mind and think deeply while your body works. Recently I have been mulling over ideas about what it will take to protect the Boundary Waters not just from the sulfide-ore mines that currently threaten the Wilderness, but to help ensure that a thousand years from now vast tracks of Wilderness like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness remain.
I have come to realize that major changes in how we interact with the planet are necessary if we hope to ensure the existence of wild spaces, clean air, clean water, and a thriving healthy world that sustains our descendants many generations from now.
For the last 163 days Amy and I have lived very simply, producing a fraction of the waste, and consuming a fraction of the fossil fuels and other resources we typically use in our lives outside the Wilderness. We are happy – in many ways happier – than we have ever been. Life is not easy, but it is fulfilling and grounded. How can we take the lessons we are learning out here in the Wilderness and use them to shape our lives after A Year in the Wilderness? How can we adapt our lives outside the Wilderness to better mirror our values and help ensure that centuries from now a healthy planet and untrammeled Wilderness remain? Those are questions I hope to start answering as the miles silently glide by.
This Wilderness is worth protecting. Please join us in our efforts to @savetheBWCA for future generations.

#wildernessyear #savetheBWCA #BoundaryWaters #BWCA #winter #wilderness #simplicity #healthyplanet #keepitwild #sunset #beautiful #WeAreTheWild #onlyinMN

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