Links
Related external links
Ecological Resources staff have found these links to external websites useful and believe they may be helpful to you.
Minnesota government sites
- Bridges Search engine and gateway for Minnesota environmental resource information
- DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife
- DNR Division of Waters
- DNR Ecological Classification System
- DNR Forestry Resource Assessment Unit's ForNet "Internet delivery of natural resource management data"
- Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR)
- Minnesota Environmental Quality Board
- Minnesota Fish Consumption Advisory
- Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes:
- Minnesota Statute 84.0895 Protection of Threatened and Endangered Species
- Minnesota Statute 84D Harmful exotic species
- Minnesota Statute 116D.02 Declaration of State Environmental Policy
- Minnesota Rules, Chapter 6134 List of Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern Species
- Minnesota Rules, Parts 6212.1800 to 6212.2300 Rules that regulate treatment of species designated as endangered and threatened
- Minnesota Rules, Chapter 84D Invasive species
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Minnesota's Bookstore
- Natural Resources Research Institute of the University of Minnesota - Duluth.
- University of Minnesota Press
Federal government sites
- National Biological Information Infrastructure -- listing of biological information sources
- Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District (lots of wetlands info)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Region 3 Endangered Species Information
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetland Inventory
- U. S. Forest Service Region 9 Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive Species
Nonprofit or .org sites
- NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia of Life
- J. F. Bell Museum of Natural History
- Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts
- The Nature Conservancy
Harmful Exotic Species sites
- Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
- Great Lakes Information Network: Invasive Species in the Great Lakes Region
- Minnesota Sea Grant Exotic Species information
- Purple Loosestrife InfoCentre, Ducks Unlimited, Canada site
Aerial photography/imagery sites
- DNR Forestry Resource Assessment Unit's ForNet "Internet delivery of natural resource management data"
Lake and rivers-related sites
- Lake Superior Binational Program Habitat Committee
- Lake Superior GIS Project: An interagency project delivering data and maps online, hosted by the Natural Resources Research Institute of the University of Minnesota - Duluth.
- Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, Upper Mississippi Long Term Resource Monitoring Program
Wetlands/Environmental Review-related sites
- DNR Wetlands Information on DNR wetland regulations, descriptions and photos of wetland types, wetland maps.
- EQB Monitor: a biweekly publication of the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board that lists descriptions and deadlines for Environmental Assessment Worksheets, Environmental Impact Statements and other notices.
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Environmental Review Program.
- National Biological Information Infrastructure -- listing of biological information sources.
- National Council for Science and the Environment -- research reports and publications on environmental issues and legislation, includes Congressional Research Reports.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District Lots of wetlands info.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Wetlands
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetland Inventory
- Wetlands Conservation Act of 1991 (link to Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) site with information on the Act).