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Smoke from a controlled burn floats over Minnesota Point.

Ishkode—fire—comes back to Minnesota Point

Tribal leaders and firefighters from a dozen agencies gathered at the eastern end of Minnesota Point in early October to “carry fire” to a fire-dependent ecosystem that hasn’t seen a controlled burn for more than one hundred years.

Saving Sibley Prairie

October 1, 2026 By Laurie Allmann

Clarion call for contributions

Karen Clark

Minnesota tries to protect low-income, minority communities from unfair levels of pollution

September 4, 2026 By Stephanie Hemphill

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sets rules for a law designed to protect low-income communities and people of color from unfair pollution burdens.

Human geography on the St. Croix River

August 7, 2026 By Greg Seitz

Maps mark the paths of time.

The Not So Little Things

April 4, 2026 By Laurie Allmann

A plover’s tale

Stumbling toward clean energy

March 6, 2026 By Stephanie Hemphill

Trump paused spending under the Inflation Reduction Act on the first day of his second term. What other resources are there to move the energy transition along?

The Rockhounds

February 6, 2026 By Laurie Allmann

Kyle and Reid Hamlin put on the miles

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