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Ishkode—fire—comes back to Minnesota Point

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 31, 2026 |

Smoke from a controlled burn floats over Minnesota Point.

Tribal leaders and firefighters from a dozen agencies gathered at the eastern end of Minnesota Point in early October to “carry fire” to a fire-dependent ecosystem that hasn’t seen a controlled burn for more than one hundred years.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management

Saving Sibley Prairie

By Laurie Allmann | October 1, 2026 |

Clarion call for contributions

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Michigan, Michigan conservation, prairie, Regional Environmental News Tagged With: conservation

Minnesota tries to protect low-income, minority communities from unfair levels of pollution

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 4, 2026 |

Karen Clark

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sets rules for a law designed to protect low-income communities and people of color from unfair pollution burdens.

Filed Under: Air quality, An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: environmental review, policy

Ravens & crows

By Laurie Allmann and Lee Pfannmuller | June 5, 2026 |

Our intelligent associates

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

The Not So Little Things

By Laurie Allmann | April 4, 2026 |

A plover’s tale

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized, wildlife Tagged With: birds

The Rockhounds

By Laurie Allmann | February 6, 2026 |

Kyle and Reid Hamlin put on the miles

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Geology, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Uncategorized

Yet another delay in enforcing sulfate limits on wild rice waters

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 3, 2026 |

Hay Lake

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management

Homeland

By Dominique Braud, Peter Ostroushko, Agate | December 5, 2025 |

Riches beyond measure

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Video, wildlife

Struggle over Minnesota’s wildlife lands

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 31, 2025 |

Northern goshawk

“We couldn’t understand why the DNR was doing it this way except that they were being unduly influenced by the timber industry.”

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

Marking History

By Laurie Allmann | October 3, 2025 |

Looking back to look forward

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

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