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Citizen Management in a Contested Landscape

By Marcy West | December 1, 2024 |

The amazing origins of Wisconsin’s Kickapoo Valley Reserve

Filed Under: Driftless Region, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management

Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2024 |

Seed sales by company

Farmers and environmental groups want Minnesota to put a lid on pesticide-treated seeds

Filed Under: Agriculture, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: Agriculture, policy

Junonia coenia

By Laurie Allmann | November 1, 2024 |

The uncommon, common Buckeye butterfly

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry

Time to rededicate our support for the environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 18, 2024 |

Lake Bemidji

Voters can opt to continue lottery funding for the environment in November.

Filed Under: Conservation practices, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Into Fossils

By Justin Tweet | October 5, 2024 |

Modern echoes of ancient life

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Geology, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: geology

School trust lands continue to stir controversy

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 21, 2024 |

Map of school trust lands in BWCAW

Filed Under: An Agate Original, BWCA, Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Invasive carp are surging in the Mississippi River. Will people and pets eat them?

By Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator | August 30, 2024 |

Carp jump in the Fox River

Researchers are looking for ways to make invasive Asian carp more palatable for humans, or for dogs.

Filed Under: Conservation practices, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Mississippi River, Nature, Research, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, resource management

How old is the water?

By Laurie Allmann | August 17, 2024 |

Calvin Alexander fields the questions

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River, Water quality Tagged With: science, water

Invasive plants: a worthwhile fight

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 3, 2024 |

Volunteers work too clear out invasive plants.

Battling invasive plants can be a lot of work, but when you think about how much the earth gives us, it seems the least we can do.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, resource management

Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay’s strategy to improve water quality?

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch | July 21, 2024 |

Runoff enters the Appomattox River, a major tributary of the James River, which flows into southern Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

People trying to clean up the Mississippi River to protect the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico could learn from those working on the Chesapeake Bay.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Mississippi River, Policy, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, policy

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