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Book Review: Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota’s Environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 16, 2018 |

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

Small farmers adapt and invent

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 22, 2018 |

A small flock of sheep enjoy a spring day at Clover Valley Farms near Duluth. Photo: Stephanie Hemphill

Small farmers meet a myriad of challenges with ingenuity and grit.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: Agriculture, conservation, Farming

Book Review: Sustaining Lake Superior by Nancy Langston

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 28, 2018 |

Recent history offers lessons about how to clean up and protect the Greatest Lake.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management Tagged With: Lake Superior, resource management

Boreal Heartbeat: Canadians experience a changing climate

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 3, 2018 |

Dan and Brenda Baughman. Photo by Kelsey Jones-Casey.

What does climate change mean for people who live close to the land in Northwestern Ontario?

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: climate change, Ontario

Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with John Herman

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2017 |

John Herman. Photo © Stephanie Hemphill.

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Reporter's Notebook, Series

“Indian Country is clearing its throat”

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 1, 2017 |

Winter on the St. Louis River. Photo by Ivy Vainio

Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management, rivers, St. Louis River, tribes

Diary of a mad tree planter

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 8, 2017 |

Planting a mix of young trees in anticipation of losing our black ash.Photo by Stephanie Hemphill

Northern Minnesota landowners prepare for the arrival of the Emerald ash borer.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature, resource management

Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 21, 2017 |

A vivid history and sober analysis of the many threats the Great Lakes face.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: Great Laks, Lake Superior, resource management

A Poetry Event for the Bees

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 8, 2017 |

Photo by Jeni O'Brien.

Agate Magazine and Holy Cow! Press are teaming up to create a hive of bee activities in Duluth.

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: conservation, Nature, poetry

Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with Bob Dunn

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 24, 2017 |

Bob Dunn, a quiet, effective environmental crusader. Photo by Stephanie Hemphill.

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

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