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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

Living with Aquatic Invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 14, 2022 |

Scientists have learned a lot about aquatic invasive species, and experts now say the appearance of an exotic species in a body of water doesn’t necessarily mean the end of life as we know it.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Fish, Flowers, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Nature, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

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

Enough

By Laurie Allmann | April 1, 2022 |

When Spring Still Comes

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

Quirky plants on Lake Superior’s rugged shore

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 19, 2022 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Nature, Research, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Lake Superior, Nature

Celebrating Dark Skies

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 29, 2022 |

Northern Lights shine above Eagle Lake north of Duluth in March 2015. Bob King

Efforts grow to protect the dark skies that nature needs and humans love.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior Tagged With: dark skies

The Crows of Ann Arbor

By Laurie Allmann | January 16, 2022 |

A sight to behold

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, 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

Experts clash over logging in wildlife areas

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 20, 2021 |

“Timber sales are not planned by wildlife managers; they’re assigned from the top down.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, wildlife Tagged With: minnesota, Nature, policy, resource management

One Cottonwood

By Dominique Braud | October 31, 2021 |

A year in the life of a tree, with images by Dominique Braud & music by Bryan Akipa

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

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