Action alert: Contact your senators to protect the BWCAW
The U.S. Senate vote on the Joint Resolution that would overturn the 20-year ban on mining upstream of the Boundary Waters has been delayed. You still have time to contact your senators and urge they vote “no”. You can phone the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and a switchboard operator will connect you directly with the Senate office you request. Ask Senators Klobuchar and Smith to vote “NO” on resolution 140 and convince their colleagues to do the same. This will be a very close vote.
In January 2026 Rep. Stauber introduced House Joint Resolution 140 which uses the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the 20-year Boundary Waters mining ban that was put in place in January 2023. The 2023 order withdrew 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest – including land in the watersheds that flow into the Boundary Waters – from mineral and geothermal leasing. Joint Resolution 140 would reverse the 2023 Public Land Order and bar any substantially similar action from being taken by a future Presidential Administration. The BWCAW is home to our native heritage lake trout populations.
