News Topic: Land Conservation

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Land Conservation  

08/16/2010 - New rules to limit dock sizes and protect Minnesota lakeshore from overdevelopment have hit a major roadblock, prompting frustration from lake advocates who say that updated restrictions are desperately needed to maintain clean water and healthy fisheries.

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Land Conservation  

08/05/2010 - The Obama Administration’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative came to Minnesota this week in an effort to develop a 21st century conservation agenda. Leaders in conservation, park and recreation enthusiasts, and water advocates across the Upper Midwest came together to urge the Administration to take this opportunity to strengthen the capacity for federal, regional, state, and local agencies and private landowners to work collaboratively in order to protect national parks and the trails, wildlife, plants, and rivers beyond park borders.

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Land Conservation  Hunting  Hiking  Events  

07/23/2010 - An effort to solicit grassroots comments and fold them into a national long-range conservation plan arrives in Minneapolis August 4.

The listening session, which takes place 4-7:30 p.m. at Ted Mann Concert Hall, 2128 Fourth Street South, is part of an Obama Administration America's Great Outdoors initiative.  By November, the initiative is supposed to yield a draft conservation agenda for the White House.

News Topic(s): Wildlife  What's New  Land Conservation  

07/05/2010 - The 520-acre Lincoln Waterfowl Production Area, eight miles southwest of Lake Crystal, is in the works that would increase WPA acreage in the county by about a fourth. Wildlife managers, hunters, conservationists, birders and others are excited about the new wetlands and prairies.

The project is expected to cost about $2.3 million, due to $1.9 million in land costs and $400,000 in estimated construction. It is planned to open in fall 2011.

News Topic(s): Wildlife  What's New  News!  Land Conservation  Funding  Darby   

07/04/2010 - Darby Nelson is president of the Board of Directors of Conservation Minnesota and a member of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council (LSOHC).

An article in the June 27 Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Deal Has Legacy of Questions,” about the $36 million acquisition of perpetual easements on forest land in northern Minnesota unfortunately leaves the reader with several misleading perceptions. Star Tribune writer Mike Kaszuba suggests both Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council Chair Mike Kilgore and staff of the national conservation group the Conservation Fund had conflicts of interest regarding that purchase. The implication that these people personally benefited at public expense is ludicrous. He also questions whether the purchase was what taxpayers intended for the Outdoor Heritage Fund. Next