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Gems in the Rift

By Laurie Allmann | August 10, 2017 |

The luminous Lake Superior Agate. Photo © Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum, Grand Marais, MI

Agate is not a magazine about agates. Except when it is.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, Uncategorized

Diary of a mad tree planter

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 8, 2017 |

Planting a mix of young trees in anticipation of losing our black ash.Photo by Stephanie Hemphill

Northern Minnesota landowners prepare for the arrival of the Emerald ash borer.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature, resource management

The Fact of Joy

By Paul Gruchow | June 20, 2017 |

Photo © Trish Carney

Essayist Paul Gruchow takes his cue from a young badger

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Paul Gruchow Tagged With: spring

Listening into Silence

By Heidi Fettig Parton | June 5, 2017 |

Photo by Scott Fettig

Poetry by Heidi Fettig Parton.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Poetry Tagged With: poetry

Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 21, 2017 |

A vivid history and sober analysis of the many threats the Great Lakes face.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: Great Laks, Lake Superior, resource management

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

Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with Bob Dunn

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 24, 2017 |

Bob Dunn, a quiet, effective environmental crusader. Photo by Stephanie Hemphill.

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

Walking With Water

By Heidi Fettig Parton | April 10, 2017 |

Sharon Day. Photo © Keely Kernan

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Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Water quality

Dunes of the Leelanau

By Laurie Allmann | March 16, 2017 |

Photo © Karen Mulvahill. All rights reserved.

Exploring Michigan’s dynamic coastal environment

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science Tagged With: Great Laks

Dueling lawsuits over Minntac permit

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 22, 2017 |

Minntac mine. Photo courtesy wikimedia commons by Bjoertvedt

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is at the center of lawsuits over a long-delayed water quality permit for the Minntac taconite mine.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: environmental review, mining, Northern Minnesota, resource management, rivers

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