Don’t give up the fight – for the Boundary Waters and the future of the planet — this Earth Day

By: Ruth Conniff

Outlets: Wisconsin Examiner

Published: April 22, 2026

Words: 996

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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The darkened sky in the early afternoon, the tornado sirens wailing as baseball-sized hail shattered windows and dented car roofs, sounding like a series of explosions as drivers hurried home at 4 p.m. last week — all of it felt like the eerie first scene in an apocalyptic movie.

This is not a drill, I thought, watching the clouds tumbling and boiling overhead as my car radio and my phone began shrieking in unison …

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