Wilderness Watch Sues Forest Service for Failure to Control Motorized Towboats in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
From the column: "Congress designated the BWCAW as a wilderness to protect its wild character, and management of the area should always lead in that direction. Unfortunately, towboats have been a big exception."
Forest Service Begins Food Storage Order kdal610.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kdal610.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A mama bear and her cub dig through trash near Observation Rd. | Photo: WDIO-TV/File WDIO Created: July 30, 2021 06:16 PM
On Friday, the Superior National Forest announced a Food Storage Order for the Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) management area. All visitors will need to store their food properly. Rangers say the food storage order is the result of increases in human-bear interactions with negative outcomes.
Officials say the rise in interactions is the result of a number of factors. We finalized a new bear action plan this year which calls for more systematic reporting, so we probably have more reports being submitted, Superior National Forest Wildlife Biologist Cheron Ferland said in a press release. But this by itself doesn’t account for the increase. It’s also because there are more visitors on the landscape an
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