 The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Minnesota Office of School Trust Lands, and the U.S. Forest Service, Superior National Forest, are planning to transfer approximately 80,000 acres of school trust lands within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to federal ownership, benefiting Minnesota's public education system. For years, the state U.S. Forest Service and the Conservation Fund unsuccessfully tried to exchange school trust lands inside the BWCAW for lands outside it.