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Efforts to restore wild rice in the St. Louis River face challenges

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 25, 2016 |

A healthy stand of wild rice, Zizania palustris, at harvest time. Ojibwe people call this important activity “manoominike.” The standing partner uses the “gaandakii’igan” (push pole) to get around and the seated partner uses the “bawa’iganaakoog” (knocking sticks) to collect the rice. Photo by Cheryl Katz.

Efforts to restore wild rice in the St. Louis River estuary face potential challenges from carp, Canada geese, and sulfate pollution from upstream taconite mines.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, Northern Minnesota, resource management, St. Louis River, tribes

More to Say: The Writings of Paul Gruchow

By Laurie Allmann | April 11, 2016 |

Paul Gruchow

With “Luminaries of the Bog,” Agate launches a new series of Paul Gruchow writings to include unpublished works.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Paul Gruchow, Series

Researcher crusades for policies to protect water: profile of Dr. Deborah Swackhamer

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 24, 2016 |

Dr. Deborah Swackhamer

As a graduate student, Deborah Swackhamer made important discoveries about toxic chemicals polluting the Great Lakes; as a researcher she endured a grueling industry investigation; as a public scientist she showed how to make Minnesota’s lakes and rivers cleaner. In retirement she continues her lifelong quest to improve water quality.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, minnesota, resource management

Book Review: Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 7, 2016 |

At the Shore, by Duluth print artist Cecilia Lieder.

Poets and visual artists contemplate Lake Superior.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: Lake Superior, poetry

The Agate Hunters

By Greg Seitz | February 29, 2016 |

There is no closed season for pursuing rocks.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River Tagged With: agate, geology, rocks, st. croix river

Diary of an Aquatic Scientist

By Toben LaFrancois | February 22, 2016 |

Sponge close-up by Jon, Namekagon River, St. Croix National Scenic Riverway near Cable.

How an arts-based underwater photography program functions as a platform for student driven scientific inquiry (or) Thirty years after hearing a B-side Iron Maiden song, I finally get it.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management

Whitetail deer diminish diversity of Minnesota’s northern forests

By Paul Ojanen | February 6, 2016 |

Sugar maple stand near Grand Portage, free of deer browsing. Photo by Paul Ojanen.

Hungry deer have changed Minnesota’s landscape dramatically, making it difficult to preserve or restore the original northwoods.

Filed Under: Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature

Comparing PolyMet to Wisconsin’s Flambeau Mine

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 21, 2016 |

The Flambeau mine operated just 140 feet from the Flambeau River from 1993 to 1997.

A critic of the proposed PolyMet mine in Minnesota compares the project to the Flambeau mine, which operated in Wisconsin in the 1990s.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: environmental review, mining, rivers

Storm

By Laurie Allmann | January 1, 2016 |

Spruces-Updated

A poem and photos to celebrate a winter storm.

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

Environmental Impact Statements: Do they work?

By Laurie Allmann | October 10, 2015 |

A conversation with Scott Strand, Executive Director of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management Tagged With: environmental review, policy

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