Recent history offers lessons about how to clean up and protect the Greatest Lake.
“Indian Country is clearing its throat”
Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.
Swans in the Crosshairs
Here in the Mississippi Flyway, both tundra and trumpeter swans are nongame species. A pending USFWS proposal could change that.
Adaptation as Acceptance: Toward a New Normal in the Northwoods
The inside view from a conservation biologist
Diary of a mad tree planter
Northern Minnesota landowners prepare for the arrival of the Emerald ash borer.
Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
A vivid history and sober analysis of the many threats the Great Lakes face.
Dueling lawsuits over Minntac permit
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is at the center of lawsuits over a long-delayed water quality permit for the Minntac taconite mine.
Above Superior
Photographer Cynthia Dickinson spends a day in the skies above the Superior National Forest with USGS researcher Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer and USFS pilot Pat Loe.
Minnesota tweaks wild rice rule
Minnesota adjusts a formula designed to protect wild rice waters from sulfate pollution.
Minnesota puts taconite mine permitting “on pause”
As the federal government investigates whether it should take away Minnesota’s authority to regulate industry, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says it has put most mining permit activities “on pause.”