A conversation with the poet and the entomologist whose teamwork produced an anthology of poems about bees.
In the Abstract
What is insight if not minutia well considered?
Reporter’s Notebook: Oral history project continues with Grant Merritt
Key players in passage and uses of early environmental legislation are interviewed as part of an oral history project.
The Blue Mountains of Minnesota
Agate continues its series on the writings of Paul Gruchow with an excerpt from his book, The Necessity of Empty Places, and a tribute to Southwest Minnesota’s Blue Mounds
Above Superior
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.
Reporter’s Notebook: Environmental oral history project begins with Chuck Dayton
In the early 1970s, Minnesota legislators put key environmental protections into law. An oral history project aims to recall how the bills were passed with wide margins, and how effective the laws have been.
The Calling of Cranes
In Baraboo, a telling seasonal dialogue between wild and captive cranes
Minnesota tweaks wild rice rule
Minnesota adjusts a formula designed to protect wild rice waters from sulfate pollution.
The Grace of the Wild
Paul Gruchow series continues with an excerpt from Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild.
Open Grown
Poetry inspired by Belwin Conservancy’s restored oak savanna landscape.