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Where Wonders Never Freeze

By Jeffrey Broberg | March 15, 2021 |

Life in the winter trout streams of the Driftless.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Nature, Photography, Resource Management Tagged With: fish, insects

Trusting the Science

By Laurie Allmann | March 1, 2021 |

Agate commentary and an interview with scientist Jim Almendinger

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Commentary, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, St. Croix River Tagged With: science

Big plan to change Minnesota’s water quality rules

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 13, 2021 |

St. Louis River

Minnesota agency plans to set new rules that critics say will allow degradation in water quality.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: minnesota, Rules, Water quality

The Driftless: the land and humans

By Jeffrey Broberg | February 1, 2021 |

Driftless landscape

Here in the Driftless, it’s a never-ending cycle: surface water infiltrates into the soils and karst, becoming groundwater that quickly flows from nearby springs to become surface water again.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Driftless Area, geology

More than Honey

By Agate and Laurie Schneider | January 15, 2021 |

A conversation with Laurie Schneider, founder of the Pollinator Friendly Alliance

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues Tagged With: pollinators

Making Light

By Laurie Allmann | January 1, 2021 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry Tagged With: poem, winter

An uncommon home for the Common Tern

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 17, 2020 |

Tern-flying.jpeg

People are protecting Common Terns, which aren’t so common in the Midwest.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management Tagged With: birds, colonial birds, Lake Superior, nesting, restoration, St. Louis River, terns

Going Driftless

By Jeffrey Broberg | December 2, 2020 |

Geologist Jeff Broberg explores the origins of the Driftless Region

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Series Tagged With: science

Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments over Minntac’s wastewater pollution

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2020 |

Minntac waste pond

“For twenty years, delaying compliance with state water law requirements has been U.S. Steel’s modus operandi,” the MPCA complained in its brief.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: Regulation, Taconite mining

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

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