House Public Lands Caucus Fails Test With Boundary Waters Vote
Partisanship trumped common ground on conservation in the long-simmering fight over a proposed mine in northern Minnesota.
The House of Representatives voted 214 to 208 Wednesday to open up hundreds of thousands of federal acres to mining near the border of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
The vote marked a major test of whether the House Public Lands Caucus would speak with a unified voice…
