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Return of a Keystone Species: Dakota County’s Bison Prairie

By Agate | January 15, 2023 |

New herd takes up residence at Spring Lake Park Reserve

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, prairie

Wind Resistance

By Patrick Shea, Points North | December 31, 2022 |

Wind turbines are being built in ocean waters off the east and west coasts. But why don’t we see any in the Great Lakes?

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Policy Tagged With: conservation, policy

sweetwater sea

By Dominique Braud and Agate | November 26, 2022 |

Lake Superior transforms the world around it in images by Dominique Braud set to music by Peter Ostroushko.

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

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

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

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

What We Must Bring to Politics: Don Arnosti on citizen advocacy

By Agate | February 17, 2022 |

Our window of opportunity for the environment

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Uncategorized

Coming Home

By Agate | December 31, 2021 |

An artist residency inspires photographer Cynthia Dickinson

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, St. Croix River Tagged With: photography, pine needles, st. croix river, st. croix watershed research station

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

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

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