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Recent Nature Books

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 9, 2022 |

A rich list of recently published books that nurture our sense of wonder at nature.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: books

Remembering Grant Merritt, genial and tenacious defender of Minnesota’s environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 28, 2022 |

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

Wildly Successful Farming: AGATE book review

By Laurie Allmann | April 29, 2022 |

And a conversation with author Brian Devore

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

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

A Sand County Almanac: reviewing a new edition of Aldo Leopold’s classic

By Ed Block | August 16, 2020 |

A new generation of readers gets a chance to drink from the source of some of the best ecological thinking and writing of the twentieth century.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized Tagged With: aldo leopold, book review, literature, nature writing

Book review: The Lost Forest

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 20, 2019 |

A children’s book explains a Minnesota mystery, with interesting information for adults and captivating artwork.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Art, Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management

Book review: They Have a Word for It

By Laurie Allmann | February 25, 2019 |

Rheingold’s classic, a book for our times.

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

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

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

Book Review: Psalms of the Early Anthropocene

By Laurie Allmann | December 6, 2017 |

Kathleen Heideman: A Michigan poet you want to know

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry Tagged With: Michigan, poetry

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