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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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Conservation groups: Is clean water Legacy money making a difference?

Ensuring water projects funded through the state's Legacy Amendment are making a difference -- and proving it to the public -- is a major challenge, conservationists and those who oversee Legacy money acknowledged.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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U of M economist measures nature's benefits with dollars

U of M economist measures nature's benefits with dollars

Nature performs many important functions that benefit humans -- not just offering beauty but cleaning water, taming floods and pollinating crops. Some researchers think it's time to put a dollar value on those natural processes.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Cleanup set for St. Louis River sawmill debris

The sawmills that buzzed away along the St. Louis River in Duluth are long gone, but the debris they left beneath the surface is still there, spoiling the habitat for fish and other aquatic life.

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Longtime Minn. naturalist to retire Tuesday

Palmquist has taken school kids and families on nature hikes, helped them plant trees and make maple syrup, and generally imparted his enthusiasm for nature to more than 400,000 visitors over the years.
by Stephanie Hemphill

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Underwater cannon may help protect Great Lakes

Scientists struggling to protect native Great Lakes fish from a greedy predator called the round goby are taking a page from the playbook of stores that pipe classical music through loudspeakers to chase away loitering teens.

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Retiring forestry service supervisor leaves legacy of strong stewardship

Retiring forestry service supervisor leaves legacy of strong stewardship

Jim Sanders, who for 15 years was the calm presence at the center of some of northern Minnesota's most fractious environmental battles, retires today from his position as the Superior National Forest supervisor.
by Dan Kraker

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