Did you see the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Sunday cover story on our National Campaign Chair Becky Rom's lifelong quest to protect the Boundary Waters.
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"Now, more than 55 years later, she’s winning where it counts — in Washington, D.C. Rom, 67, is the brains and, many say, the heart behind the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters, a swift and surprisingly effective national campaign that would seal off the BWCA by simply imposing a permanent ban on mining in its watershed. Thanks largely to that effort, the federal government is on the verge of issuing a decision that could put a halt to a $2.8 billion copper mine that has been proposed on the edge of the wilderness area.
The decision could mark a turning point for Minnesota — a shift in the balance between the state’s long heritage of mining and the vision to protect one of the few purely wild places left in the country...There is more at stake than [Rom's] love for the million-acre wilderness that shaped her own life. She longs to create a community that thrives on preserving the natural wonder around it, rather than exploiting it." -- Star Tribune
As Becky is quoted in the Star Tribune: "Every generation has a responsibility. It’s not something I could walk away from."
