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Night of the Sturgeon

By Laurie Allmann | November 22, 2018 |

On the St. Croix with fishing guide Brian Klawitter

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River Tagged With: fish

Green Bay project promises answers for thorny questions about agricultural runoff

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 3, 2018 |

The water quality in Silver Creek is improving with a concerted effort spearheaded by Green Bay's Sanitary District.

An experiment with before-and-after data could provide focused information about how well various practices work to reduce nutrient pollution of streams and lakes.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Water quality Tagged With: Agriculture, clean water, Great Lakes

A Second Look at Fall Warblers

By Kim Eckert | October 10, 2018 |

Tennessee Warbler. (Sax-Zim Bog) Photo © Sparky Stensaas, @ www.thephotonaturalist.com

An essay from Kim Eckert’s book, Birding by Hindsight

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

Poem: “The Underword”

By Barton Sutter | September 13, 2018 |

The Wanderer. © Jim Gindorff

A poem for a magical fall day.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Poetry, wildlife Tagged With: Nature, poetry, Wildlife

The Work of a Life: A Prairie for Paul Gruchow

By Laurie Allmann | August 5, 2018 |

Gruchow Memorial Prairie. Photo by Chuck Kernler

The writer is remembered in a praire’s dedication

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

Book Review: Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota’s Environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 16, 2018 |

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

Uncovering the secret lives of wolves

By Alissa Johnson | June 28, 2018 |

A creek running through an old beaver meadow, or beaver pond that has drained and become a meadow, near Junction Bay in Voyageurs National Park. Photo by Tom Gable.

A study in Voyageurs National Park is revealing details about wolf predation on beavers, leading to new insights about the ways wolves hunt—breakthrough information helping scientists create a fuller picture of how wolves impact the larger ecosystem.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, wildlife Tagged With: voyageurs national park, wolves

Relishing Spring

By Agate | June 12, 2018 |

Cinnamon fern. © Dominique Braud

A video celebration of spring in Minnesota featuring images by Dominique Braud

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography

Small farmers adapt and invent

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 22, 2018 |

A small flock of sheep enjoy a spring day at Clover Valley Farms near Duluth. Photo: Stephanie Hemphill

Small farmers meet a myriad of challenges with ingenuity and grit.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: Agriculture, conservation, Farming

Canada Lynx: Life on the Edge

By Laurie Allmann | April 27, 2018 |

An 8,065 square-mile region in northeastern Minnesota is defined as critical habitat for threatened lynx in the Lower 48 under the Endangered Species Act. Photo © Thomas Spence

As researchers in the Superior National Forest work to learn more about the Canada lynx, the species may lose its federal protected status in the Lower 48

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, wildlife

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