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Working with fire, traditionally

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 3, 2021 |

A new short film, Oshkigin: Spirit of Fire, shows the traditional controlled burning practices of the Anishinaabe people. These small burns help prevent wildfires from getting out of hand.

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

Where does that mercury come from?

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 28, 2021 |

“We’ll use these stable isotope fingerprints of mercury to look at what source is being methylated and getting into the fish,” says USGS’s Sarah Janssen.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior

Duluth’s beach struggles

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 22, 2021 |

“People in the community were grateful we were getting some kind of help, but it turned out to be an epic disaster.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Policy, Water quality Tagged With: duluth, Lake Superior, water

Where Sandhills Gather

By Tomy O'Brien | June 13, 2021 |

A photographic journey to Crex Meadows & Bosque del Apache

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

Microplastics proliferate in Lake Superior

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 16, 2021 |

Dr. Lorena Rios Mendoza leads students in a yearly beach cleanup.

Researchers are learning about the microplastics in Lake Superior.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: microplastics, water

A Father’s Bird Journal
        Eighty Years Later

By Laurie Allmann | April 3, 2021 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: birds

Where Wonders Never Freeze

By Jeffrey Broberg | March 15, 2021 |

Life in the winter trout streams of the Driftless.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Nature, Photography, Resource Management Tagged With: fish, insects

Trusting the Science

By Laurie Allmann | March 1, 2021 |

Agate commentary and an interview with scientist Jim Almendinger

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Commentary, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, St. Croix River Tagged With: science

The Driftless: the land and humans

By Jeffrey Broberg | February 1, 2021 |

Driftless landscape

Here in the Driftless, it’s a never-ending cycle: surface water infiltrates into the soils and karst, becoming groundwater that quickly flows from nearby springs to become surface water again.

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Driftless Area, geology

More than Honey

By Agate and Laurie Schneider | January 15, 2021 |

A conversation with Laurie Schneider, founder of the Pollinator Friendly Alliance

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues Tagged With: pollinators

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