The so-called roadless rule covers some 30% of all national forest land across the country, but only 2.2% of national forest land in Minnesota 鈥� and all of it outside the Boundary Waters.
Five state lawmakers wrote in a letter to the DNR last week urging the agency should exchange the school trust land in the BWCAW for an equal amount of federal land outside the wilderness.
All Williams is known to have had with him when he left on his trip are two fishing rods and a single shot Harrington & Richardson 12-gauge shotgun, in case he saw a grouse.
