Mainstreet Radio's Bob Kelleher looks back to 1978, when two lawyers drafted an historic compromise that still guides activities in the Boundary Waters today. Report includes various interviews and speech excerpts.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill creating the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Minnesota's million-acre canoe country first joined the National Wilderness system in 1964, but the region was given special exemptions to allow motors, logging and even mining. The controversy over what was appropriate in the wilderness boiled for years until the Dayton-Walls agreement, which became the 1978 Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act.