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Reflecting on Water

By Photographs by Andrew James Okey | November 2, 2020 |

A chorus of regional voices on fresh water accompany images by Andrew James Okey.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Uncategorized, Water quality

Great Lakes Estuaries

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 11, 2020 |

Estuaries in the Great Lakes are among the most productive, life-supporting and interesting environments on the planet.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality

Sprinkling lead on the wild garden

By Carrol L. Henderson | September 22, 2020 |

Carrol Henderson calls on fellow hunters to choose non-toxic ammo

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, wildlife Tagged With: hunting, lead

Creating new food systems

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 31, 2020 |

High tunnel

A new generation of small growers is stepping into the complex world of farming. They hope to change our fragile agricultural systems.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy Tagged With: Farming, food

A Sand County Almanac: reviewing a new edition of Aldo Leopold’s classic

By Ed Block | August 16, 2020 |

A new generation of readers gets a chance to drink from the source of some of the best ecological thinking and writing of the twentieth century.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized Tagged With: aldo leopold, book review, literature, nature writing

Thinking about white pine

By John Pastor | July 28, 2020 |

A biologist’s romance with a 200-year-old white pine.

Filed Under: Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: Old growth, White pine

In the Early Days

By Gary Noren | July 6, 2020 |

A last, lingering look at the unfolding season of spring in the St. Croix Valley.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: music, st. croix valley, video

Field Notes

By Mark Odegard | June 15, 2020 |

Field Notes

Artist Mark Odegard finds inspiration in phenology

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Art, Audio, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, St. Croix River Tagged With: art, Nature, spring, video

Harmony, Balance, Governance

By Agate | May 24, 2020 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: manoomin, ojibwe, white earth, wild rice

Permitting Minnesota’s mines: what can we learn?

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 7, 2020 |

Northshore processing plant

A deep dive into the permitting process for the decades-old Northshore mine and the proposed PolyMet mine reveals a lot about the flaws in the system.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Pollution, Regulation

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