The episode centers on a 2026 congressional effort to overturn a 20-year mining moratorium near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, a move opposed by conservationists, tribal communities, and four descendants of President Theodore Roosevelt. The fight underscores a bro
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