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Minnesota History magazine gives a nod to state’s early environmental laws

By Stephanie Hemphill | January 14, 2019 |

New article by Agate co-founder is based on long-running project to record interviews with influential advocates.

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Policy, Reporter's Notebook Tagged With: history, law

Book Review: Sustaining Lake Superior by Nancy Langston

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 28, 2018 |

Recent history offers lessons about how to clean up and protect the Greatest Lake.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management Tagged With: Lake Superior, resource management

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

Dunes of the Leelanau

By Laurie Allmann | March 16, 2017 |

Photo © Karen Mulvahill. All rights reserved.

Exploring Michigan’s dynamic coastal environment

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science Tagged With: Great Laks

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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