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Making Light

By Laurie Allmann | January 1, 2021 |

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

Monarchs

By Laurie Allmann | January 25, 2020 |

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Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: butterflies, monarchs

For the love of turtles

By Laurie Allmann | July 25, 2019 |

A conversation with herpetologist Carol Hall

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, wildlife Tagged With: turtles

Book review: They Have a Word for It

By Laurie Allmann | February 25, 2019 |

Rheingold’s classic, a book for our times.

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

Night of the Sturgeon

By Laurie Allmann | November 22, 2018 |

On the St. Croix with fishing guide Brian Klawitter

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River Tagged With: fish

The Work of a Life: A Prairie for Paul Gruchow

By Laurie Allmann | August 5, 2018 |

Gruchow Memorial Prairie. Photo by Chuck Kernler

The writer is remembered in a praire’s dedication

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Paul Gruchow, Series, Uncategorized

Canada Lynx: Life on the Edge

By Laurie Allmann | April 27, 2018 |

An 8,065 square-mile region in northeastern Minnesota is defined as critical habitat for threatened lynx in the Lower 48 under the Endangered Species Act. Photo © Thomas Spence

As researchers in the Superior National Forest work to learn more about the Canada lynx, the species may lose its federal protected status in the Lower 48

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, wildlife

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

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

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