Local View: Boundary Waters are worth more than minerals

Local View: Boundary Waters are worth more than minerals

I have been privileged to hunt, hike, camp, and canoe the wildlands of Northeastern Minnesota in the greater Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness region since I was a teenager in the 1980s. Later, I graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with an accounting degree, learning balance-sheet management and financial analysis. Last fall, I hunted ruffed grouse in the Boundary Waters, cognizant that a Chilean mining giant (owned by billiona…