National Wildlife Federation Outdoors

Telling the stories of America's modern conservationists working to conserve, protect and restore fish and wildlife.

Author: National Wildlife Federation Outdoors

The National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast explores the biggest conservation issues and most interesting conservationists and programs throughout the country, from national programs to statewide conservation efforts and current issues driving the conversation within the conservation community.
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Urgent Action Needed to Protect the Boundary Waters with Lukas Leaf and Matthew Schultz
Wednesday, 28 January, 2026

Urgent Action needed! In this episode Aaron sits down with Lukas Leaf and Matthew Schultz from Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters. The House of Representatives recently voted to strip a 20-year moratorium on mining in the Boundary Waters region and in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness through the unprecedented use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA). A vote in the U.S. Senate is expected to be held any day. Aaron, Lukas, and Matthew walk you through the conservation history of the region and its values, why mining here is a terrible idea, how the 20 year mining moratorium came to be, what the CRA is and why this particular use of the CRA is like nothing in history, and what you can do today to help keep protections in place. This episode is a must listen if you are an American conservationist. NWF Outdoors action alert: https://support.nwf.org/page/93268/action/1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=20260126_Outdoors_ETT_Senate_BoundaryWaters_NoSpecies_Email1&utm_content=20260126_Outdoors_ETT_Senate_BoundaryWaters_NoSpecies_Email1+6313878455&ea.url.id=4517047 Sportsmen for Boundary Waters website: https://sportsmenbwca.org/; Sportsmen for Boundary Waters action alert: https://bit.ly/SpeakUpForTheBWCA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices