"To educate the public in order to preserve reasonable public access to and sensible recreational multiple-use 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 recreational multiple-use of public lands and waters.
2. The use of common sense.
3. Continued multiple uses of our National Forests and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
4. Caring for our natural environment.
5. Being environmentally, economically and socially responsible.

Win a day of fishing on Basswood with Lee Borgersen

Once again Lee Borgersen has volunteered to take the winner of the Conservationists with Common Sense - CWCS 'Early Bird Drawing' winner on a day of fishing on Basswood Lake this summer. The winner will be drawn from the early CWCS membership dues sent in before June 1, 2009. The 2005 winner of the day trip to Basswood with Lee, Dave Johnson from Virginia, MN had a fantastic time and four years later he still tells people about the great fishing and the tips learned from Lee. Thanks Lee for being such a great supporter of CWCS. Send in your CWCS membership dues today! Membership forms on the website: www.cwcs.org and also in the next CWCS Spring 2009 Newsletter that will be in the mail in early May.

LOOK WHAT'S NEW!

Polo and Logo T-Shirts Now Available! That's right - we now have shirts available. Show your support for CWCS by ourchasing either a logo t-shirt (sizes M-XXL) or polo shirts (colors putty, green and navy, sizes L - XXL) today. We also have a new blue denim CWCS cap available.

Superior National Forest Travel Management Project

CWCS is pleased to see that existing roads and snowmobile trails are being used as much as possible. This reduces forest fragmentation and protects sensitive species. It also protects aquatic resources, as there are bridges and/or culverts at stream crossings. Using existing roads and trails also eliminates the concern regarding the spread of non-native invasive species (NNIV), but we feel snowmobile trails should be exempt from the 90 mile "new trail" designation, since these are existing motorized-use trails. [more...]