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Ellie Kriese (left) drives the boat while Casey Jenson pulls a rake across the bottom of Lake Le Homme Dieu to collect weeds for a Eurasian milfoil survey conducted by RMB Environmental Laboratories on June 23. (Lowell Anderson / Echo Press)
Northland Outdoors

Do invasives harm lake property values? Study takes a look

Science and Nature

The story behind Corona Borealis, the Little Crown

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Climate change fight is coming to your home. Cool.

Martin Larsen, left, talks to Laura Bishop, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, right, about cover crops at the Olmsted County soil health farm Wednesday. (John Molseed/jmolseed@postbulletin.com)
Agriculture

Cover crops 'putting your money where your mouth is'

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Roll down the 'big river of stars'

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Cedar River watershed project holds water

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A buoy marks the edge of the navigation channel in the Mississippi River with plenty of water beyond that may be too shallow for recreational boats. Steve Gardiner / RiverTown Multimedia
Science and Nature

Survey reveals extent of boat groundings in Lake Pepin

A doorway to a cabin underneath the pilothouse is seen on the wreck of the Pere Marquette 18, located in about 500 feet of water in Lake Michigan offshore from Sheboygan, Wis. Two Minnesota shipwreck hunters discovered the wreck in July. The pilothouse structure broke loose during the sinking and now rests on the starboard rail near the stern of the ship. Courtesy of Ken Merryman and Jerry Eliason
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Minnesota shipwreck hunters locate long-sought Lake Michigan wreck

The aurora borealis and stars shine over Little John Lake in the BWCAW. The federal widlerness this week received official certificaton as an Interntional Dark Sky Sanctuary, the first in Minnesota. ( Photo courtesy Richard Hoeg at 365daysofbirds.com )
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Boundary Waters becomes Minnesota’s first 'Dark Sky Sanctuary'

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The little marine mammal of the stars!

Elizabeth Fischer uses an electron microscope to capture images of the coronavirus, which is about 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. (Elizabeth Fischer/KHN/TNS)
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COVID-19 has more Americans thinking about science. Could this be a Sputnik moment?

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No jumping to conclusions about invasive worms

Ready to devour a vine, a grazing goat eats its way through the foliage Thursday, Sept. 3, at Rotary Riverside Park in Brainerd. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch
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Goats take a bite out of Brainerd park invasive species

Sagittarius the archer (Courtesy Mike Lynch)
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That teapot in the sky has a good backstory

Pictured is an adult emerald ash borer with its wings spread. (Special to The Globe)
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Worthington finding success fighting emerald ash borer

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You don't need to master anything to be a master gardener

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Stargazing time starts to expand in September

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Homestead Trails neighborhood getting greener

A northern long-eared bat. (Clint Austin / Forum News Service file photo)
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Few private landowners in Minnesota may be eligible for bat conservation program

An owl was freed from a soccer net at Mayo High School Wednesday. (Contributed photo)
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Owl's well that ends well

An owl was freed from a soccer net at Mayo High School Wednesday. (Contributed photo)
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Owl rescued by Rochester Animal Control officers