Dear John, 

Making sure you saw this email earlier from Ingrid: all gifts are matched up to $100,000 until midnight TONIGHT. 

That means if you donate $100, an anonymous group of donors will also chip in $100. If you donate $20, they will donate $20. Meaning that your donation today will have 2X the impact in protecting the Boundary Waters.

The administration is moving fast to hand our Wilderness to foreign mining interests — but our movement is stronger, and we will stop them with you by our side. 

Your matched gift tonight keeps us in the fight. Donate here: savetheboundarywaters.org/2x

Becky

Becky Rom
National Campaign Chair, Save the Boundary Waters
Ely, MN

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From: Ingrid Lyons, Save the Boundary Waters <[email protected]>
Date: December 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Subject: Match ends at midnight — we need you

FINAL HOURS: We are 80% to our December goal—your 2x matched gift could put us over the top by midnight..

Hi Friend,

Today is the last day to have your gift matched dollar-for-dollar for the Boundary Waters—and the stakes couldn't be higher.

The past few months have proven that the watershed of the Boundary Waters is still at grave risk of dangerous and risky mining—and 2026 will bring even greater challenges.  

The Boundary Waters needs every defender right now. If you’re able to make a final year-end matched gift, it will go twice as far in defending the Boundary Waters through the critical fights ahead in 2026.

Why is this so urgent? Because the threat is real and the damage would be permanent:

🚨 100% of copper mines pollute. There has never been a sulfide-ore copper mine that hasn't resulted in pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency has deemed hardrock mining America's most toxic industry.

🚨 Pollution spreads. Because the Boundary Waters is a vast network of interconnected lakes and rivers, toxic waste would not stay contained. It would travel downstream through the watershed, affecting Voyageurs National Park, Quetico Provincial Park, and eventually flowing into Hudson Bay.

🚨 The damage is permanent. If sulfide-ore copper mining is allowed to pollute this pristine Wilderness, the damage will last for generations. There is no second chance. There is no clean-up that could restore what's lost.

Some places are just too important—we can't allow the most toxic industry in the United States next to the most-visited Wilderness.

Your action today protects clean water, wildlife habitat, wild spaces, and the future of the Boundary Waters.

Thank you for showing up in this final push.

For the Wilderness, 

Ingrid Lyons

Executive Director

Save the Boundary Waters

Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness

P.S. Polling shows that a vast majority of Minnesotans are on the side of protecting the Boundary Waters and are not willing to sell the Wilderness to the hardrock mining industry. Join them and make a matched gift today >>

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