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By Stephanie Hemphill | January 17, 2025 |

Map: school trust lands located inside BWCAW

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: minnesota, policy, resource management

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

Small co-ops lag in clean energy production

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 17, 2024 |

Solar panels being installed

Small rural electric co-ops struggle to join the clean energy transition.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Policy Tagged With: minnesota, policy

Climate disruption: what are we in for?

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 21, 2023 |

Pines on the St. Croix River

We are all noticing changes in the climate. What can we expect in Minnesota?

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation practices, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Lake Superior, Nature, Research Tagged With: conservation, Lake Superior, minnesota, Nature, Northern Minnesota

Trying (again) to tackle mercury in the St. Louis River

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 28, 2023 |

Taking steps to put the St. Louis River on a mercury diet.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Lake Superior, Nature, Peatlands, Policy, Research, Resource Management, Science, Taconite mining, Water quality Tagged With: Lake Superior, mining, minnesota, Nature, Northern Minnesota, policy, resource management

Ecosystems changing rapidly in many remote northern lakes

By Greg Seitz | September 3, 2022 |

Recent studies show how protected waters of Midwest National Parks are affected by global forces.

Filed Under: Climate Change, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science, Water quality Tagged With: Michigan, minnesota, national parks, water, wisconsin

Remembering Grant Merritt, genial and tenacious defender of Minnesota’s environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 28, 2022 |

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

Experts clash over logging in wildlife areas

By Stephanie Hemphill | November 20, 2021 |

“Timber sales are not planned by wildlife managers; they’re assigned from the top down.”

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Forestry, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Uncategorized, wildlife Tagged With: minnesota, Nature, policy, resource management

Big plan to change Minnesota’s water quality rules

By Stephanie Hemphill | February 13, 2021 |

St. Louis River

Minnesota agency plans to set new rules that critics say will allow degradation in water quality.

Filed Under: Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Nature, Policy, Resource Management, Science, Water quality Tagged With: minnesota, Rules, Water quality

Book Review: Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota’s Environment

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 16, 2018 |

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

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