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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
- DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife
- DNR Division of Ecological and Water Resources Home Page
- DNR Ecological Classification System
- Landview - Customized maps based on data layers that you select – Choose from public lands, water bodies, roads, aerial photos, and more. Includes access to historical aerial photography from the 1930s and '50s.
- 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
- Natural Resources Research Institute of the University of Minnesota - Duluth.
- University of Minnesota Press
Federal government sites
- Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Headquarters – info on federal wetland permitting and resources
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District – info on federal wetland permitting and resources
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Water
- 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
- U. S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Minnesota
Nonprofit or .org sites
- NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia of Life
- J. F. Bell Museum of Natural History
- Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- The Nature Conservancy
Harmful Exotic Species sites
- Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force
- Minnesota Sea Grant program information
- Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
- Invasive Species Information - MnDNR
Lake and rivers-related sites
- Lake Superior Binational Program Habitat Committee
- 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.
- Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources – Information on the Minnesota Wetlands Conservation Act and other wetlands information
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency - Environmental Review Program.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Headquarters
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Wetland Inventory