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Book Review: Sustaining Lake Superior by Nancy Langston

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 28, 2018 |

Recent history offers lessons about how to clean up and protect the Greatest Lake.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management Tagged With: Lake Superior, resource management

Boreal Heartbeat: Canadians experience a changing climate

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 3, 2018 |

Dan and Brenda Baughman. Photo by Kelsey Jones-Casey.

What does climate change mean for people who live close to the land in Northwestern Ontario?

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: climate change, Ontario

The Making of Minnesota’s New Atlas of Breeding Birds

By Lee Pfannmuller | February 13, 2018 |

The remarkable story of an 8-year effort

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: birds, conservation, minnesota, research

River of oil poses risks to Wild and Scenic watershed

By Greg Seitz | January 25, 2018 |

Network of heavy crude pipelines criss-crosses northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, including the St. Croix River headwaters.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Regional Environmental News, St. Croix River, Water quality Tagged With: pipelines

New Year, New Perspectives

By Laurie Allmann | January 5, 2018 |

Photo © Jeni O'Brien. All rights reserved.

Four photographers bring us into other worlds

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: Photo feature

Book Review: Psalms of the Early Anthropocene

By Laurie Allmann | December 6, 2017 |

Kathleen Heideman: A Michigan poet you want to know

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry Tagged With: Michigan, poetry

Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with John Herman

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2017 |

John Herman. Photo © Stephanie Hemphill.

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Reporter's Notebook, Series

“Indian Country is clearing its throat”

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 1, 2017 |

Winter on the St. Louis River. Photo by Ivy Vainio

Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management, rivers, St. Louis River, tribes

Swans in the Crosshairs

By Laurie Allmann | October 11, 2017 |

Trumpeter Swan. Image © Dominique Braud

Here in the Mississippi Flyway, both tundra and trumpeter swans are nongame species. A pending USFWS proposal could change that.

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management Tagged With: swans

Adaptation as Acceptance: Toward a New Normal in the Northwoods

By Meredith Cornett, Director of Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota | September 26, 2017 |

In northern Minnesota, most tree planting takes place in the early spring. Here, quaking aspen are surrounded by white spruce and balsam fir. Photo ©2017/Christian Dalbeck Photography

The inside view from a conservation biologist

Filed Under: Climate Change, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature, Northern Minnesota, resource management

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