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Forest Service taking input on BWCA towboat limits

Oct 14, 2023 03:59AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: A tow boat waits at an outfitter’s dock on Moose Lake before taking people and canoes to Prairie Portage. (Photo by Greg Gjerdingen/Flickr, Quetico Superior Wilderness News)

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 - Quetico Superior Wilderness News - October 13, 2023


The Superior National Forest recently began the environmental review process to consider changing how the agency manages motorized boats that ferry people and canoes into parts of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As a first step, the Forest Service is accepting comments through the end of this year on the initial phase of analysis.


To read the full story, visit the Quetico Superior Wilderness News site here. 
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