environment

Paul Pieper, Rice County Environmental Services Solid Waste Director, was on today's AM Minnesota program. It is nice to occasionally have Paul on AM Minnesota because in Paul's world of recycling things are always changing. It was a nice change when they went to a single source for waste that can be recycled...

Earlier this week the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced it was removing 640 stream miles from the public waters inventory. Actually, that was done about three months ago, but it became news this week when some environmental groups filed an appeal with the DNR...

I am sure you recognized the phrase Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I am not sure when the environmental phrase was developed, but it did come from the environmental movement that began with the first Earth Day in the 1970s. In the picture is a unique way of reusing herbicide boxes -- as a foot stool and television stand...

Due to confusion and uncertainty about alternative practices that would be approved for required buffer strips and what actually needs a buffer, many farm groups were hoping the Minnesota Legislature would delay the deadline to implement Minnesota's buffer law...

A number of years ago I noticed a cardboard sort of a trap attached to a tree in my ditch. I left it alone and assumed it was perhaps part of the neighbor kid's science project. I later figured out it was actually a gypsy moth trap. The gypsy moth has slowly been making its way westward from the East Coast...

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, every last one of them a public treasure. And we love them. We fish (year-round!), we boat, we ski, we sail, we swim, we dive, we splash, we skate. What we don't like is to see them covered in algae, their waters muddied by pollution and trash...

Minnesota is not doing to bad as far as being a Green State goes. According to wallethub.com, Minnesota is ranked as the seventh Greenest State. The states above us are: 1. Vermont 2. Massachusetts 3. Oregon 4. Washington 5. Connecticut 6...

Farmers are hearing a lot in the news about the proposed law requiring that landowners will have to apply for a permit to mow the road ditch along state highways. In addition, mowing would not be permitted during the primary nesting season...

In a news release email to KDHL on Monday, the Cannon River Watershed Partnership announced that executive director Bradley Frazier has resigned, effective immediately. He stated that he is wanting to explore other opportunities and things that he has interest in...

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order reversing President Barack Obama's executive order on Waters of the United States, or WOTUS. This controversy dates back to the Clean Water Act passed by Congress and signed by the president in the 1970s...