Permanent destruction of a precious wilderness

Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park, alongside Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, forms the world’s largest international area dedicated to wilderness recreation.   Many people, even those who were able to go just once, describe a trip in Quetico/BWCAW as one of the most significant experiences in their lives. The area represents a significant portion of the remaining wild space on the continent, or for that matter, accessible wilderness area on the planet.        Its destruction, through copper and nickel mining by Chilean mining giant Antofagasta is a crime against the future, against nature, against science, and indigenous people, not to mention any notion of stewardship of our natural resources   Worse than rounding up people for imprisonment in El Salvador or South Sudan without trial? Worse than ending health care for millions of people? Worse than destroying the pillars of democracy? No, but a planned, unnecessary disaster, a tremendous, irreplaceable loss nonetheless. It’s part of “our” national budget bill, the one that most Congress people voted for, but never read.   See more here: Minnesota’s Boundary Waters are pristine. Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ could pollute them forever   My two major trips to Quetico published in Outpost   1963, where tragedy strikes amidst incredible natural beauty: [https:]   2015, a return, 52 years later, to portions of the same route, including the treacherous picture rock [https:]