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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or Minnesota DNR, is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks, state forests, recreational trails, and recreation areas as well as managing minerals, wildlife, and forestry throughout ...
Beltrami, Itasca, Koochiching County, Minnesota, and Lake of the Woods. 878,040 acres (3,553.3 km 2) Established in 1933. Largest State Forest, although boundary of Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood is larger only about 45,000 acres of RJDMH State Forest are state owned. Red Lake. Beltrami, Koochiching.
Whitewater State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, preserving a stretch of the Whitewater River surrounded by rocky bluffs. It is located in Winona County in the southeastern blufflands area of the state. The 2,700-acre (11 km 2) park features scenic overlooks and trout fishing in the spring-fed Whitewater River and Trout Run Creek.
The Burntside State Forest is a state forest located near the town of Ely in Lake and Saint Louis counties, Minnesota. 82% of the forest land falls within the limits of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the north which belongs to the Superior National Forest, and thus falls under the federal jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service.
Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas (SNAs) are public lands in the state of Minnesota that have been permanently protected to preserve any one or combination of the following: The SNA Program is housed within the Division of Ecological and Water Resources at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. [2]
The Kabetogama State Forest is a state forest located in Koochiching and Saint Louis counties, Minnesota, United States.The forest borders the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the east, the Sturgeon River State Forest to the south, the Nett Lake Indian Reservation to the west, and Voyageurs National Park to the north.
Ojibwa women in canoe, Leech Lake. The Forest was established as the Minnesota Forest Reserve on 27 June 1902, with the passage of the Morris Act. [2] While this act mainly addressed the disposition of unallotted lands on Ojibwe Indian reservations in Minnesota, 200,000 acres (810 km 2) of the Chippewas of the Mississippi, Cass Lake, Leech Lake, and Winnibigoshish Indian reservations were ...
website, 425-acre main property in MN, additional 300-acre Wisconsin nature preserve. Cascade Meadow Wetlands & Environmental Science Center. Rochester. Olmsted. Southeast. website, 90 acres, regional resource for environmental education with a focus on energy, water, and wetlands. Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center. Grand Marais.