MPR’s Bob Kelleher reports that leading environmentalists are vowing to fight a proposal that would return trucks to two boat portages in Northern Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

8th District Congressman Jim Oberstar has attached language to a massive transportation bill that would allow trucks on two of the portages which were closed to trucks five years ago by a federal court. However, environmentalists who filed suit to close the portages vow not only to fight the Oberstar amendment but the use of any motors in the canoe wilderness.