Conservationists with Common Sense

Educating with facts not feelings on issues supporting our communities

Who is CWCS?   www.cwcs.org 

Conservationists with Common Sense (CWCS) is a true grassroots organization! 

CWCS is a 501c(3) non-profit educational organization established in 1989 to disseminate accurate information about public lands and environmental issues.

CWCS’s Mission Statement is: To educate the public in order to preserve reasonable access to and sensible, multiple-use recreation of public lands and waters (including motorized uses) in Northeastern Minnesota, especially the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), with care for the environment.

 CWCS Supports:

1. Reasonable access to and sensible, multiple-use recreation of public lands and waters. Public lands should be managed in a manner conducive to supporting a wide variety of traditional recreational uses including: hunting, fishing, boating, canoeing, camping, hiking, biking, trapping, skiing, dog sledding, snowmobiling, and ATV use as well as forest management. This does not mean that every use at all times is desirable. It does mean seeking ways to accommodate various user groups based on common sense and mutual respect.

2. The use of common sense, the best available scientific data, objective analysis, and broad public input on the part of government agencies and elected officials when making and implementing land management and environmental policies.

3. Continued multiple-use of our National Forests and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness,

4. Caring for our natural environment. A healthy natural environment, including clean air, water and soil is essential to present and future generations.

5. Being environmentally, economically and socially responsible. CWCS acknowledges the importance of tourism to northern Minnesota, but we also need good paying jobs to support our communities, schools and hospitals surrounding the Boundary Waters. The human factor must be put back into land management policies. The needs of local communities and all users can and must be balanced with the conservation of sensitive natural environments. Common Sense is needed in addressing economic development for the betterment of all.

Several ways to stay more informed about changes in the Boundary Waters, the proposed copper/nickel projects (PolyMet & Twin Metals), the 400,000 acre land withdrawal from future mining in NE Minnesota and the School Trust Lands exchange in the Boundary Waters is to request the CWCS newsletter with your donation. Also, follow CWCS, We Support Minnesota Mining, Up North Jobs, and Minnesota Miners on Facebook and Twitter.