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Learning an Earth-grown Language

By Cadence Eischens | May 9, 2025 |

Embracing the land as kin

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

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

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

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

Three for Trees

By Agate | July 1, 2024 |

A trio of poems from our region

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

Save the Fireflies

By Gigi Otten | June 1, 2024 |

Your childhood may be gone, but do the fireflies have to go with it?

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Uncategorized

Weird Duck Time

By Todd Arnold | March 7, 2024 |

Another perk of Midwest winters

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

“We got jellyfish!”

By Ellie Katz | January 12, 2024 |

Freshwater jellyfish with water glider

Student scientists in Michigan add to the sparse scientific record about Craspedacusta sowerbii, a freshwater jellyfish found in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes.

Filed Under: Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: Nature

Small Wonder

By Agate & Emma O'Brien | October 28, 2023 |

Agate’s Short-short Video Series continues with a video by Emma O’Brien

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Video Tagged With: video

For the Love of a Prairie

By Lynette Anderson | August 25, 2023 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, prairie Tagged With: prairie

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