Saving America's Most Popular Wilderness Area - Dave and Amy Freeman

The most visited wilderness area in the United States is in trouble. That's the memo from Dave and Amy Freeman to Washington, D.C.'s lawmakers as mining companies look to exploit copper and other metals from the ground that compromises the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness' pristine nature in northern Minnesota. To bring attention to the threat posed to this gem of American conservation, the Freemans paddled 2,000 miles from Minnesota to D.C. to speak with lawmakers. Dave Freeman also speaks of his admiration for Teddy Roosevelt, who is regarded as one of the fathers of American environmentalism, and how he followed in Roosevelt's footsteps down Brazil's treacherous Rio Roosevelt, which was then known as the River of Doubt.