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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

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

Going Driftless

By Jeffrey Broberg | December 2, 2020 |

Geologist Jeff Broberg explores the origins of the Driftless Region

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Series Tagged With: science

Where the Earth Breathes: A Vow of Stability

By Kevin Koch | December 22, 2019 |

Excerpt of an essay by Kevin Koch from the anthology, The Driftless Reader

Filed Under: Driftless Region, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: driftless, geology, glaciers

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