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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

Where Sandhills Gather

By Tomy O'Brien | June 13, 2021 |

A photographic journey to Crex Meadows & Bosque del Apache

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

Getting acquainted

By Agate | May 30, 2021 |

The luminous Lake Superior Agate. Photo © Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum, Grand Marais, MI

Please tell us what you think about Agate.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: agate

Microplastics proliferate in Lake Superior

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 16, 2021 |

Dr. Lorena Rios Mendoza leads students in a yearly beach cleanup.

Researchers are learning about the microplastics in Lake Superior.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: microplastics, water

Walter Mondale, Champion of Rivers

By Agate | May 1, 2021 |

In his own words, with photographs by Craig Blacklock and a remembrance from Tia Nelson

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Policy, St. Croix River

A Father’s Bird Journal
        Eighty Years Later

By Laurie Allmann | April 3, 2021 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: birds

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