Outside magazine, September 1997 Minnesotans, Start Your Engines? A long-simmering feud heats up on Capitol Hill, as canoeists and speedboaters square off over some of the nation’s most hallowed wilderness By Jonathan Weisman Gary Joselyn dips his paddle into Poplar Lake and points his canoe northwest,…

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