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The “clean energy” mine that could put one of America’s most pristine wilderness areas at risk

A view of the Moose Lake entry point to the Boundary Waters, a federally protected area in northeastern Minnesota. | Anthony Souffle/The Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images There’s no such a thing as a truly pristine landscape — humans have, over millennia, shaped every environment on Earth — but the Boundary Waters wilderness of northeastern Minnesota comes pretty darn close. Stretching across more than a million acres near the Canadian border, about four hours north of Minneapolis, the Boundary Waters is a messy patchwork of lakes, streams, and islands with hardly any human inf...