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Dueling lawsuits over Minntac permit

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 22, 2017 |

Minntac mine. Photo courtesy wikimedia commons by Bjoertvedt

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is at the center of lawsuits over a long-delayed water quality permit for the Minntac taconite mine.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: environmental review, mining, Northern Minnesota, resource management, rivers

Heart of Winter

By Agate | January 26, 2017 |

Photo by Dominique Braud

The shortest days are long on beauty: winter photography by Dominique Braud

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

If Bees Are Few

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 4, 2017 |

Marla Spivak. Photo by Jayme Halbritte/Getty Images for MacArthur Foundation.

A conversation with the poet and the entomologist whose teamwork produced an anthology of poems about bees.

Filed Under: Art, Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Poetry, Science Tagged With: Nature, poetry

In the Abstract

By Laurie Allmann | December 12, 2016 |

Photo Luke Taylor

What is insight if not minutia well considered?

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry, Science

Reporter’s Notebook: Oral history project continues with Grant Merritt

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 18, 2016 |

Image © Jim Gindorff

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, Issues, Reporter's Notebook Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Northern Minnesota, policy

The Blue Mountains of Minnesota

By Paul Gruchow | October 31, 2016 |

The "three sisters tree" in Blue Mounds. Photo © John Duren

Agate continues its series on the writings of Paul Gruchow with an excerpt from his book, The Necessity of Empty Places, and a tribute to Southwest Minnesota’s Blue Mounds

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

Above Superior

By Cynthia Dickinson | October 10, 2016 |

Superior National Forest after take-off from the USFS Seaplane Base. © C.Dickinson

Photographer Cynthia Dickinson spends a day in the skies above the Superior National Forest with USGS researcher Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer and USFS pilot Pat Loe.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science

Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project begins with Chuck Dayton

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 19, 2016 |

Loons on Jasper Lake. Photo by Chuck Dayton.

In the early 1970s, Minnesota legislators put key environmental protections into law. An oral history project aims to recall how the bills were passed with wide margins, and how effective the laws have been.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Series Tagged With: environmental review, minnesota, policy, profiles

The Calling of Cranes

By Curt Meine | August 29, 2016 |

Sandhill Cranes. Photo © Ted Thousand. Used with permission.

In Baraboo, a telling seasonal dialogue between wild and captive cranes

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

Minnesota tweaks wild rice rule

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 7, 2016 |

Seeding wild rice in the St. Louis River. Photo by Cheryl Katz. Used with permission.

Minnesota adjusts a formula designed to protect wild rice waters from sulfate pollution.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Northern Minnesota, resource management

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