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Can we transform recycling?

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 22, 2024 |

Recycling can be confusing. Several bills in the Minnesota legislature this year are designed to make it easier for us and more comprehensive. They would flip the current pattern and make producers take responsibility for the entire life cycle of their products.

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

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

Winter Flight

By Laurie Allmann | December 30, 2023 |

Gary Noren revels in the freedom of Nordic ice-skating

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

Finding new ways to assert treaty rights and protect the environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 10, 2023 |

Wild rice on a lake

White Earth attorney Frank Bibeau is coming up with new ways to protect the environment by asserting tribal rights.

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

Climate disruption: what are we in for?

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 21, 2023 |

Pines on the St. Croix River

We are all noticing changes in the climate. What can we expect in Minnesota?

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation practices, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Nature, Research Tagged With: conservation, Lake Superior, minnesota, Nature, Northern Minnesota

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

Environmental Review: how are we doing?

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 13, 2023 |

Blackhawk Lake

How well is Minnesota’s environmental review program working?

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: policy, resource management

Down in the Valleys

By Laurie Allmann | September 29, 2023 |

Artist Mark Granlund pedals and paints his way down the St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Mississippi River, Nature, St. Croix River Tagged With: art, painting

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

Night wonders

By Laurie Allmann | July 28, 2023 |

Bob King offers infinite reasons for looking up

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Astronomy, Dark Sky, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Uncategorized

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