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Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, Florida, Indiana, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada...

I should have made clearer in this thread and the age poll thread, where I said something similar, and in all places where I have said...

Chilean company with a majority owner who is friends with the Trump family. Profits to Chile. We do not have the smelter capacity in...

As a MN resident who has been to the BWCA over 200 times I'm torn. Mining if it can be done correctly does have a place but I would...

The Twin Metals-owned property is 4.8 miles from Gabbro. However, the federal mining district butts up to the wilderness boundary, which...

We are dealing with an open pit gold mine. Despite lip service to environmental guidelines, it is proving to be an ecological disaster...

I’ve seen the proposed site plan. 653 acres for 1.5 million tons of tailings, water on both sides of the site, shallow water table.

I mapped tailings from coal strip mines in Indiana, Kentucky. It’s not something you can fix afterwards. Not worth the risk...

It's not worth taking the chance, on the mine not contaminating the BWCA. There is No fix, if the BWCA is contaminated. The BWCA is...

Yes, absolutely. I have never had ‘traffic’ there. The float to Ochre is quite a departure from the pond paddling; it’s an intimate...

Linda and I paddled the local little Miami National Scenic River, Fort Ancient section to just past the sewage plant below Morrow Ohio...

I sometimes regret not getting Eagle but, then again, when working the High Adventure programs, I was always amazed how many kids wore...

I spent a very few short years in scouts as a kid, until my rural small town troop disbanded when the scoutmaster quit and no one else...

I got my start canoeing while in the scouts. I enjoyed summer camp so much that I starting working on the camp staff in 1963, after 4...

We had an excellent scout troop. Our Scoutmaster was a local WW2 hero to us young boys, that not only taught us outdoor skills but...