Outdoors

Trump to rescind 'Roadless Rule' protecting 58 million acres of forest land
Speaking in New Mexico, President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture announced her intention to roll back a landmark 2001 conservation rule passed in the late hour of the Clinton administration.
National Loon Center to break ground on new facility in Crosslake
The $18.5 million project has been a decade in the making. It will include a visitor center and space for research and education, and aims to teach people how to conserve freshwater ecosystems that are vital to loons’ health.
Trump administration says it will move to allow mining near Boundary Waters, after Congress pulls back
The Trump administration says it is starting the process to reverse a 20-year mining moratorium on a big swath of federal land adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the day after a similar effort was stripped from a massive budget bill moving through Congress.