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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

Spring Wildflower Excursions

By Hannah Texler | April 17, 2022 |

The up side of looking down

Filed Under: Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: flowers, Nature, plants

Enough

By Laurie Allmann | April 1, 2022 |

When Spring Still Comes

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry Tagged With: poetry

Quirky plants on Lake Superior’s rugged shore

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 19, 2022 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Nature, Research, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Lake Superior, Nature

Of Icicles and Ice Sheets

By Rudy Molinek | March 5, 2022 |

I’ve come to a place where the boundaries—between ice and vapor, between glacial moraines and muddy paths in the woods, between icicles and ice sheets, between the past, the present, and the future—are all boundaries that can sublimate away, leaving behind only awe, and hope, and spring.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science Tagged With: Nature

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

Celebrating Dark Skies

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 29, 2022 |

Northern Lights shine above Eagle Lake north of Duluth in March 2015. Bob King

Efforts grow to protect the dark skies that nature needs and humans love.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior Tagged With: dark skies

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

Coming Home

By Agate | December 31, 2021 |

An artist residency inspires photographer Cynthia Dickinson

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, St. Croix River Tagged With: photography, pine needles, st. croix river, st. croix watershed research station

Good Nature Books

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 15, 2021 |

A short list of recent books about nature.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: Nature

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