The Science
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Mining Risk

Myers, T. (2016). Acid mine drainage risks – A modeling approach to siting mine facilities in Northern Minnesota USA. Journal of Hydrology, 533, 277-290.

TECHNICAL DOCUMENT ACID MINE DRAINAGE PREDICTION (1994). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Fisheries

Venturelli, P., Vondracek, B. (2017). THE FISH AND FISHERIES OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS AND VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK, AND THEIR VULNERABILITY TO COPPER SULFIDE MINING

Reclamation Research Group (2008). Acid Mine Drainage and Effects on Fish Health and Ecology: A Review

D. Wesley, et al. (2014) Characterizing coal and mineral mines as a regional source of stress to stream fish assemblages

Wetlands Ecology

A. Myrbo, et al. (2017) Sulfide Generated by Sulfate Reduction Is a Primary Controller of the Occurrence of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris) in Shallow Aquatic Ecosystems

A. Myrbo, et al. (2017) Increase in Nutrients, Mercury, and Methylmercury as a Consequence of Elevated Sulfate Reduction to Sulfide in Experimental Wetland Mesocosms

Economics

J. Stock. (2018) U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Environmental Assessment (EA) on Proposed 20-year Mineral Leasing Withdrawal in Superior National Forest

U.S. Forest Service Research supporting BWCA protection

Twin Metals Proposed Lease Renewal denied by United States Forest Service, with Bibliography (2016)