Canada's Parliament is close to approving a government bill to protect boundary waters against bulk removals.

ECONOMIST: Environmental management faces moving targets

Another group of scientists convened by the International Joint Commission, a U.S.-Canadian agency that deals with boundary waters, is developing recommendations for solving Lake Erie's toxic algae problem.

WSJ: Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms

Ahead of this week's ministerial meeting, the federal government announced changes it wanted made to the Boundary Waters Treaty in order to prevent bulk water exports, and referred the Lake Superior case to the International Joint Commission, which deals with boundary waters.

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When my family and I toed our way through the Boundary Waters of the northern reaches of Minnesota, my brother and I found a stand of pitcher plants growing out of a moldering mat of reeds and moss, and because of this book, I had the theory of ecological succession right in the front of my brain.

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