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Creating a buzz at Chisago Lakes Middle School

By Patrick Collins | July 8, 2022 |

Students and pollinators flourish in the gardens

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Uncategorized Tagged With: education, kids, pollinators, students

Living with Aquatic Invaders

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 14, 2022 |

Scientists have learned a lot about aquatic invasive species, and experts now say the appearance of an exotic species in a body of water doesn’t necessarily mean the end of life as we know it.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Fish, Flowers, Freshwater lakes, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Issues, Nature, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Spring Wildflower Excursions

By Hannah Texler | April 17, 2022 |

The up side of looking down

Filed Under: Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: flowers, Nature, plants

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

Whitetail deer diminish diversity of Minnesota’s northern forests

By Paul Ojanen | February 6, 2016 |

Sugar maple stand near Grand Portage, free of deer browsing. Photo by Paul Ojanen.

Hungry deer have changed Minnesota’s landscape dramatically, making it difficult to preserve or restore the original northwoods.

Filed Under: Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: conservation, forestry, Nature

Linnaeus’s Flower

By John Pastor | September 20, 2015 |

A fragile little flower connects northern Minnesota and Sweden.

Filed Under: Flowers, Homepage Bottom Features Tagged With: Nature

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