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Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with John Herman

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 16, 2017 |

John Herman. Photo © Stephanie Hemphill.

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, Reporter's Notebook, Series

“Indian Country is clearing its throat”

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 1, 2017 |

Winter on the St. Louis River. Photo by Ivy Vainio

Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management, rivers, St. Louis River, tribes

Diary of a mad tree planter

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 8, 2017 |

Planting a mix of young trees in anticipation of losing our black ash.Photo by Stephanie Hemphill

Northern Minnesota landowners prepare for the arrival of the Emerald ash borer.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature, resource management

Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 21, 2017 |

A vivid history and sober analysis of the many threats the Great Lakes face.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: Great Laks, Lake Superior, resource management

A Poetry Event for the Bees

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 8, 2017 |

Photo by Jeni O'Brien.

Agate Magazine and Holy Cow! Press are teaming up to create a hive of bee activities in Duluth.

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

Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project continues with Bob Dunn

By Stephanie Hemphill | April 24, 2017 |

Bob Dunn, a quiet, effective environmental crusader. Photo by Stephanie Hemphill.

Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

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

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

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

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

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