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Big plan to change Minnesota’s water quality rules

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 13, 2021 |

St. Louis River

Minnesota agency plans to set new rules that critics say will allow degradation in water quality.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: minnesota, Rules, Water quality

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

An uncommon home for the Common Tern

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 17, 2020 |

Tern-flying.jpeg

People are protecting Common Terns, which aren’t so common in the Midwest.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management Tagged With: birds, colonial birds, Lake Superior, nesting, restoration, St. Louis River, terns

Minnesota Supreme Court hears arguments over Minntac’s wastewater pollution

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2020 |

Minntac waste pond

“For twenty years, delaying compliance with state water law requirements has been U.S. Steel’s modus operandi,” the MPCA complained in its brief.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: Regulation, Taconite mining

Great Lakes Estuaries

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 11, 2020 |

Estuaries in the Great Lakes are among the most productive, life-supporting and interesting environments on the planet.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality

Sprinkling lead on the wild garden

By Carrol L. Henderson | September 22, 2020 |

Carrol Henderson calls on fellow hunters to choose non-toxic ammo

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, wildlife Tagged With: hunting, lead

Permitting Minnesota’s mines: what can we learn?

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 7, 2020 |

Northshore processing plant

A deep dive into the permitting process for the decades-old Northshore mine and the proposed PolyMet mine reveals a lot about the flaws in the system.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Pollution, Regulation

Audible underwater worlds

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 15, 2020 |

Researchers drill a hole to sink a hydrophone into an ice-covered lake.

A researcher records sounds under the surface of Minnesota lakes and hopes to learn whether humans are disturbing the lives of the denizens of the deep.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: fish, Great Lakes, lakes, research

Confronting Great Lakes invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 15, 2019 |

Mid-ocean ballast water exchange is working well to keep non-native aquatic organisms from invading the Great Lakes, but scientists are racing to find more secure solutions.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: ais, Great Lakes, invasive species

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

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