And a conversation with author Brian Devore
What We Must Bring to Politics: Don Arnosti on citizen advocacy
Our window of opportunity for the environment
The Crows of Ann Arbor
A sight to behold
Experts clash over logging in wildlife areas
“Timber sales are not planned by wildlife managers; they’re assigned from the top down.”
Subterranean Prairie
Essayist Paul Gruchow explores a western Minnesota prairie
BWCA Idyll
An essay from John Toren’s new book, Cabin in the City
Reflecting on Water
A chorus of regional voices on fresh water accompany images by Andrew James Okey.
A Sand County Almanac: reviewing a new edition of Aldo Leopold’s classic
A new generation of readers gets a chance to drink from the source of some of the best ecological thinking and writing of the twentieth century.
Can we protect nature by giving it legal rights?
Communities are using “Rights of Nature” laws to defend waterways, species and other natural features from human threats.
Audible underwater worlds
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.