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Homeland

By Dominique Braud, Peter Ostroushko, Agate | December 5, 2025 |

Riches beyond measure

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

Struggle over Minnesota’s wildlife lands

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 31, 2025 |

Northern goshawk

“We couldn’t understand why the DNR was doing it this way except that they were being unduly influenced by the timber industry.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Marking History

By Laurie Allmann | October 3, 2025 |

Looking back to look forward

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Geology, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

Data center headaches

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 5, 2025 |

Data center interior

“Maybe they’re starting to realize that the incomplete and inadequate environmental reviews they’ve doing aren’t going to stand up,”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy Tagged With: environmental review, policy

On Toolik Time

By Sara de Sobrino | August 16, 2025 |

Sara de Sobrino takes us to a field station in arctic Alaska

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Research, Series, Uncategorized

Pollution in farm country

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 2, 2025 |

Streambank erosion in Renville County

We face challenges addressing deeply entrenched pollution problems in farm country.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: policy, resource management

The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota’s North Shore

By Stephanie Hemphill | June 14, 2025 |

Walter Sve picks herring from his nets. Photo by Arnold Alanen.

A conversation with Arnold Alanen, author of The Scenic Route: Building Minnesota’s North Shore.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Photography Tagged With: Lake Superior, minnesota

Trump cuts jeopardize work of key Minnesota research lab

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 17, 2025 |

EPA lab in Duluth, MN

EPA facility in Duluth has helped protect human health.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Freshwater lakes, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Nature, Policy, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, Nature, resource management

Measuring the woods

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 14, 2025 |

A special tape measure allows Chandler Johnson to measure diameter at breast height without having to do calculations in the field.

Foresters use technology and site visits to better understand Minnesota woodlands.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: conservation, Nature, Northern Minnesota, resource management

Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: An Architect’s Sketchbook

By Laurie Allmann | February 28, 2025 |

Agate reviews Jim Lammers’ latest book

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, An Agate Original, Art, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Uncategorized Tagged With: art, books, Great Lakes

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