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Will woodland caribou survive in the Lake Superior basin?

By Nancy Langston | January 14, 2019 |

Woodland caribou on Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior. Credit: Christian Schroeder.

Human policy decisions may pose a more imminent threat to caribou than climate change.

Filed Under: Climate Change, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, wildlife Tagged With: climate change, Wildlife

Uncovering the secret lives of wolves

By Alissa Johnson | June 28, 2018 |

A creek running through an old beaver meadow, or beaver pond that has drained and become a meadow, near Junction Bay in Voyageurs National Park. Photo by Tom Gable.

A study in Voyageurs National Park is revealing details about wolf predation on beavers, leading to new insights about the ways wolves hunt—breakthrough information helping scientists create a fuller picture of how wolves impact the larger ecosystem.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, wildlife Tagged With: voyageurs national park, wolves

“Indian Country is clearing its throat”

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 1, 2017 |

Winter on the St. Louis River. Photo by Ivy Vainio

Tribes are working on many fronts to push Minnesota to do a better job of protecting the environment.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, environmental review, Lake Superior, mining, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management, rivers, St. Louis River, tribes

Gems in the Rift

By Laurie Allmann | August 10, 2017 |

The luminous Lake Superior Agate. Photo © Gitche Gumee Agate and History Museum, Grand Marais, MI

Agate is not a magazine about agates. Except when it is.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Science, Uncategorized

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

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

In the Abstract

By Laurie Allmann | December 12, 2016 |

Photo Luke Taylor

What is insight if not minutia well considered?

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry, Science

Above Superior

By Cynthia Dickinson | October 10, 2016 |

Superior National Forest after take-off from the USFS Seaplane Base. © C.Dickinson

Photographer Cynthia Dickinson spends a day in the skies above the Superior National Forest with USGS researcher Dr. Shannon Barber-Meyer and USFS pilot Pat Loe.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Resource Management, Science

Minnesota tweaks wild rice rule

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 7, 2016 |

Seeding wild rice in the St. Louis River. Photo by Cheryl Katz. Used with permission.

Minnesota adjusts a formula designed to protect wild rice waters from sulfate pollution.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Northern Minnesota, resource management

Book review: What Should a Clever Moose Eat? by John Pastor

By Stephanie Hemphill | June 13, 2016 |

Author John Pastor illustrated his book on the complexities of North Woods ecosystems.

Ecologist John Pastor poses and answers fascinating questions about North Woods ecosystems.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science Tagged With: conservation, Nature, Northern Minnesota

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