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How old is the water?

By Laurie Allmann | August 17, 2024 |

Calvin Alexander fields the questions

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River, Water quality Tagged With: science, water

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

Coming Home

By Agate | December 31, 2021 |

An artist residency inspires photographer Cynthia Dickinson

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, St. Croix River Tagged With: photography, pine needles, st. croix river, st. croix watershed research station

Walter Mondale, Champion of Rivers

By Agate | May 1, 2021 |

In his own words, with photographs by Craig Blacklock and a remembrance from Tia Nelson

Filed Under: History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, Policy, St. Croix River

Trusting the Science

By Laurie Allmann | March 1, 2021 |

Agate commentary and an interview with scientist Jim Almendinger

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Commentary, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, St. Croix River Tagged With: science

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

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

Night of the Sturgeon

By Laurie Allmann | November 22, 2018 |

On the St. Croix with fishing guide Brian Klawitter

Filed Under: Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, St. Croix River Tagged With: fish

River of oil poses risks to Wild and Scenic watershed

By Greg Seitz | January 25, 2018 |

Network of heavy crude pipelines criss-crosses northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, including the St. Croix River headwaters.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Regional Environmental News, St. Croix River, Water quality Tagged With: pipelines

This Larger River

By Bruce Leventhal | August 28, 2017 |

River Mist at Sunrise (William O'Brien State Park). Photo © Bruce Leventhal

Images of the St. Croix Valley by Bruce Leventhal

Filed Under: Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, St. Croix River

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