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Wildly Successful Farming: AGATE book review

By Laurie Allmann | April 29, 2022 |

And a conversation with author Brian Devore

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

What We Must Bring to Politics: Don Arnosti on citizen advocacy

By Agate | February 17, 2022 |

Our window of opportunity for the environment

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

The Crows of Ann Arbor

By Laurie Allmann | January 16, 2022 |

A sight to behold

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Uncategorized

Experts clash over logging in wildlife areas

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 20, 2021 |

“Timber sales are not planned by wildlife managers; they’re assigned from the top down.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, wildlife Tagged With: minnesota, Nature, policy, resource management

Subterranean Prairie

By Paul Gruchow | September 18, 2021 |

Essayist Paul Gruchow explores a western Minnesota prairie

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Paul Gruchow, prairie, Series, Uncategorized Tagged With: paul gruchow, prairie

BWCA Idyll

By John Toren | August 8, 2021 |

An essay from John Toren’s new book, Cabin in the City

Filed Under: BWCA, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Uncategorized

Reflecting on Water

By Photographs by Andrew James Okey | November 2, 2020 |

A chorus of regional voices on fresh water accompany images by Andrew James Okey.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Uncategorized, Water quality

A Sand County Almanac: reviewing a new edition of Aldo Leopold’s classic

By Ed Block | August 16, 2020 |

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.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized Tagged With: aldo leopold, book review, literature, nature writing

Can we protect nature by giving it legal rights?

By Emily Levang | March 5, 2020 |

Great blue heron

Communities are using “Rights of Nature” laws to defend waterways, species and other natural features from human threats.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: conservation

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

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