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Rick Nolan is either appallingly ignorant or appallingly dishonest. The action of the Forest Service and the BLM is pro-Boundary Waters, not anti-mining. Claiming that the Forest Service is anti-mining is laughable--the Forest Service just agreed to exchange 6,650 acres of public lands in the Superior National Forest so that PolyMet can dig up the 100 Mile Swamp. Deciding now--not after mining leases are granted and mining is a fait accompli--whether any sulfide-ore mine should be allowed in the watershed of the Boundary Waters is exactly how taxpayer dollars should be spent. Nolan and other mining fanatics disregard scores of existing businesses, thousands of existing jobs, and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of private property on which people live and recreate. They disregard the enormous value of the Boundary Waters and the rest of the Superior National Forest to the people who own it--the citizens of the United States. One of many sad things about the mindless push for copper mining is that most of the aging politicians who are in bed with Twin Metals won't be around to see the destruction of the heart of the Superior National Forest that will happen if they get their way.
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