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Bat Gadgetry: High-Tech Solutions to a Deadly Problem 

By Patrick Shea | October 15, 2022 |

Bat cave

A deadly fungus is threatening bats across the continent and it’s pushed several species towards extinction. But some scientists are hopeful they’ve found a solution: a “bug buffet.”

Filed Under: Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature

Life on the Road

By Laurie Allmann | October 1, 2022 |

Road Ecology offers strategies to limit impacts of roads on wildlife.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management, Uncategorized

Collaborating with nature

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 17, 2022 |

Members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa share their generations-old farming practices.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Northern Minnesota, resource management, Tribal concerns

Ecosystems changing rapidly in many remote northern lakes

By Greg Seitz | September 3, 2022 |

Recent studies show how protected waters of Midwest National Parks are affected by global forces.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Michigan, minnesota, national parks, water, wisconsin

Can we talk?

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 20, 2022 |

Tribal and non-tribal governments work harder at understanding each other’s concerns.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management Tagged With: Indigenous, Native American, treaties

Bringing the Yukon Home

By Tom Anderson | August 5, 2022 |

After years of cabin living in the far north, writer/naturalist Tom Anderson returns to Minnesota with new perspectives

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

Kicking off Agate’s short-short video invitational

By Laurie Allmann | July 25, 2022 |

Video by David Morris gets things rolling in new series

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Video

Creating a buzz at Chisago Lakes Middle School

By Patrick Collins | July 8, 2022 |

Students and pollinators flourish in the gardens

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Uncategorized Tagged With: education, kids, pollinators, students

Minnesota wildfire outlook

By Chance Lasher | June 22, 2022 |

Many factors play into the risk of wildfires; an outlook for this season, and why Duluth is uniquely vulnerable.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science, Wildfire Tagged With: Nature, Northern Minnesota, Wildfire

Remembering Grant Merritt, genial and tenacious defender of Minnesota’s environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 28, 2022 |

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

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