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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

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

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