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Thinking about white pine

By John Pastor | July 28, 2020 |

A biologist’s romance with a 200-year-old white pine.

Filed Under: Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: Old growth, White pine

In the Early Days

By Gary Noren | July 6, 2020 |

A last, lingering look at the unfolding season of spring in the St. Croix Valley.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: music, st. croix valley, video

Field Notes

By Mark Odegard | June 15, 2020 |

Field Notes

Artist Mark Odegard finds inspiration in phenology

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

Harmony, Balance, Governance

By Agate | May 24, 2020 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature Tagged With: manoomin, ojibwe, white earth, wild rice

Permitting Minnesota’s mines: what can we learn?

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 7, 2020 |

Northshore processing plant

A deep dive into the permitting process for the decades-old Northshore mine and the proposed PolyMet mine reveals a lot about the flaws in the system.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: Pollution, Regulation

Flexing mussels

By Greg Seitz | April 13, 2020 |

The life-and-death secrets of mussels.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Research, Science, St. Croix River, wildlife Tagged With: aquatic life, mussels, science, Wildlife

The Changing World of Maps

By John Toren | March 18, 2020 |

A meander to Montgomery, MN

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: maps

Can we protect nature by giving it legal rights?

By Emily Levang | March 5, 2020 |

Great blue heron

Communities are using “Rights of Nature” laws to defend waterways, species and other natural features from human threats.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: conservation

Audible underwater worlds

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 15, 2020 |

Researchers drill a hole to sink a hydrophone into an ice-covered lake.

A researcher records sounds under the surface of Minnesota lakes and hopes to learn whether humans are disturbing the lives of the denizens of the deep.

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, Water quality Tagged With: fish, Great Lakes, lakes, research

Monarchs

By Laurie Allmann | January 25, 2020 |

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Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Insects, Poetry Tagged With: butterflies, monarchs

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