It’s All Home Water: Paddling in the Shadow of a Mine
Photo Essay: The Medicines of Wanderlust
Después de un largo recorrido y aún con días por delante, instalé mi campamento en esta isla entre el Superior National Forest y el Área Natural para Canoas de las Aguas Limítrofes, a solo unas horas de remo de la frontera canadiense. Aquí, en los confines de la naturaleza salvaje, junto un fuego cálido y todo el tiempo del mundo para reflexionar, la vida me hace sentido. El hogar es donde descansa tu corazón. Foto: Tony Czech
I never expected to fall so hard. True wilderness will do that to you. If ever there were a place to push reset on the world, this is it. With more than a million acres of off-the-grid forests, waterfalls, rivers, streams and lakes for adventure, I doubt there are places more pristine and bewilderingly surreal than the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
What happens when there is no more backcountry? To allow the toxic, copper-nickel mines proposed by Twin Metals Minnesota would be unfathomable here. We are capable, loving souls with the ability to pull together and do right by the miracles of nature. We are far better than allowing such incomparable beauty to disappear forever.
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