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The Unaffordable Question

By Laurie Allmann | April 2, 2025 |

Will it make a difference?

Filed Under: BWCA, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Policy, Water quality Tagged With: conservation

Measuring the woods

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 14, 2025 |

A special tape measure allows Chandler Johnson to measure diameter at breast height without having to do calculations in the field.

Foresters use technology and site visits to better understand Minnesota woodlands.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management, Science Tagged With: conservation, Nature, Northern Minnesota, resource management

Omashkooz may soon join us in northeastern Minnesota

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 14, 2025 |

Elk calf

The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is working with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to return elk to northeastern Minnesota. The majestic animals once ranged the forests and prairies of the state.

The current plan is to capture 100-150 animals from the remnant herds in northwestern Minnesota over five to ten years and move them to the Fond du Lac Reservation in Carlton and southern St. Louis counties. The tribe and the state want to restore a climate-hardy, native species on or near their historical range.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, prairie, Research, Resource Management, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, Nature, Northern Minnesota, resource management

Time to rededicate our support for the environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | October 18, 2024 |

Lake Bemidji

Voters can opt to continue lottery funding for the environment in November.

Filed Under: Conservation practices, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

School trust lands continue to stir controversy

By Stephanie Hemphill | September 21, 2024 |

Map of school trust lands in BWCAW

Filed Under: An Agate Original, BWCA, Forestry, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, policy, resource management

Invasive carp are surging in the Mississippi River. Will people and pets eat them?

By Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator | August 30, 2024 |

Carp jump in the Fox River

Researchers are looking for ways to make invasive Asian carp more palatable for humans, or for dogs.

Filed Under: Conservation practices, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Mississippi River, Nature, Research, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, resource management

Invasive plants: a worthwhile fight

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 3, 2024 |

Volunteers work too clear out invasive plants.

Battling invasive plants can be a lot of work, but when you think about how much the earth gives us, it seems the least we can do.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, Nature, resource management

Could the Mississippi River benefit from Chesapeake Bay’s strategy to improve water quality?

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch | July 21, 2024 |

Runoff enters the Appomattox River, a major tributary of the James River, which flows into southern Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.

People trying to clean up the Mississippi River to protect the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico could learn from those working on the Chesapeake Bay.

Filed Under: Agriculture, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Mississippi River, Policy, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: conservation, policy

Comprehensive and beautiful bird atlas published

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 17, 2024 |

A long-awaited atlas of Minnesota’s breeding birds is here, and what a treat it is!

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, An Agate Original, Birds, Commentary, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Science, wildlife Tagged With: conservation, minnesota, Nature

Can we transform recycling?

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 22, 2024 |

Recycling can be confusing. Several bills in the Minnesota legislature this year are designed to make it easier for us and more comprehensive. They would flip the current pattern and make producers take responsibility for the entire life cycle of their products.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Conservation practices, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy, Resource Management Tagged With: conservation, policy, resource management

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