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Field Notes

By Mark Odegard | June 15, 2020 |

Field Notes

Artist Mark Odegard finds inspiration in phenology

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Art, Audio, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, St. Croix River Tagged With: art, Nature, spring, video

Growing Seasons

By Agate | September 14, 2019 |

A video meditation on the growing season by photographer Gary Noren and guitarist Dean Magraw

Filed Under: Art, Audio, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: music, photography, seasons, slideshow

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

Wilderness Voices: Travis Novitsky

By Agate | May 21, 2019 |

“Some of my most unforgettable moments are sitting on the shores of a boreal forest lake on a calm night with no wind, watching the northern lights dance overhead while the haunting calls of loons echo across the water.”

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography

‘Mixing:’ Painter mingles art and science, land and water

By Greg Seitz | March 18, 2019 |

New work by a 2018 artist-in-residence on the St. Croix River celebrates the beauty of a confluence where the waters of two rivers affected by very different human activities meet.

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: painting, research station, scwrs

Art, Science, Empathy, Action

By Agate | December 15, 2018 |

Upper Wright Down. Artist Chris Kannen. McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER

Michigan Researcher Lissy Goralnik Explores the Connections

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research Tagged With: art, interviews, science

A Second Look at Fall Warblers

By Kim Eckert | October 10, 2018 |

Tennessee Warbler. (Sax-Zim Bog) Photo © Sparky Stensaas, @ www.thephotonaturalist.com

An essay from Kim Eckert’s book, Birding by Hindsight

Filed Under: Art, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

This Larger River

By Bruce Leventhal | August 28, 2017 |

River Mist at Sunrise (William O'Brien State Park). Photo © Bruce Leventhal

Images of the St. Croix Valley by Bruce Leventhal

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, St. Croix River

A Poetry Event for the Bees

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 8, 2017 |

Photo by Jeni O'Brien.

Agate Magazine and Holy Cow! Press are teaming up to create a hive of bee activities in Duluth.

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: conservation, Nature, poetry

If Bees Are Few

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 4, 2017 |

Marla Spivak. Photo by Jayme Halbritte/Getty Images for MacArthur Foundation.

A conversation with the poet and the entomologist whose teamwork produced an anthology of poems about bees.

Filed Under: Art, Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Poetry, Science Tagged With: Nature, poetry

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