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Good Nature Books

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 15, 2021 |

A short list of recent books about nature.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: Nature

Experts clash over logging in wildlife areas

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 20, 2021 |

“Timber sales are not planned by wildlife managers; they’re assigned from the top down.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, wildlife Tagged With: minnesota, Nature, policy, resource management

One Cottonwood

By Dominique Braud | October 31, 2021 |

A year in the life of a tree, with images by Dominique Braud & music by Bryan Akipa

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

EPA okays new Minnesota water quality rules

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 17, 2021 |

The federal government has approved controversial water quality changes for Minnesota.

Filed Under: Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: environmental review, policy

Working with fire, traditionally

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 3, 2021 |

A new short film, Oshkigin: Spirit of Fire, shows the traditional controlled burning practices of the Anishinaabe people. These small burns help prevent wildfires from getting out of hand.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Photography, Policy, Resource Management, Science, wildlife Tagged With: Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management

Subterranean Prairie

By Paul Gruchow | September 18, 2021 |

Essayist Paul Gruchow explores a western Minnesota prairie

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Paul Gruchow, prairie, Series, Uncategorized Tagged With: paul gruchow, prairie

Where does that mercury come from?

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 28, 2021 |

“We’ll use these stable isotope fingerprints of mercury to look at what source is being methylated and getting into the fish,” says USGS’s Sarah Janssen.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior

BWCA Idyll

By John Toren | August 8, 2021 |

An essay from John Toren’s new book, Cabin in the City

Filed Under: BWCA, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Uncategorized

Duluth’s beach struggles

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 22, 2021 |

“People in the community were grateful we were getting some kind of help, but it turned out to be an epic disaster.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Policy, Water quality Tagged With: duluth, Lake Superior, water

Discovering Eden

By Darby Nelson | July 3, 2021 |

A favorite essay from Darby Nelson’s book, For Love of Lakes

Filed Under: Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Water quality, wildlife

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