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Land preservation

Your donations to the Minnesota Nongame Wildlife Fund have helped protect more than 3,000 acres of important wildlife habitat valued at $4 million.

Choose a number and discover a unique wildlife habitat and the special benefits that it provides.

Areas in Minnesota protected through contributions to the Nongame Wildlife Program: statewide.

  1. Shelley Island Wildlife Management Area
  2. Big Sugarbush Lake Wildlife Management Area
  3. Carmen Borgerding Wildlife Management Area
  4. Dugdale Wildlife Management Area
  5. Angle Island Wildlife Management Area
  6. Big Turtle Lake Aquatic Management Area
  7. Shell Lake Aquatic Management Area
  8. Trout Lake Wildlife Management Area
  9. Bowstring Deer Yard Wildlife Management Area
  10. Sugar Lake Conservation Easement
  11. Bass Brook Wildlife Management Area
  12. Bear Island-Deer Lake Island Wildlife Management Area
  1. Interstate Island Wildlife Management Area
  2. Hearding Island Wildlife Management Area
  3. Uppgaard Wildlife Management Area
  4. Whitefish Lake Shoreline Conservation Easement, Galbraith family
  5. Neudecker Wildlife Management Area
  6. Wig Wildlife Management Area
  7. Hog Island Wildlife Management Area
  8. Dr. Johan Hvoslef Wildlife Management Area
  9. Lamprey Pass Wildlife Management Area
  10. Jean Williams Farm, Conservation Easement
  11. Eagle Creek Aquatic Management Area
  12. Mound Prairie Wildlife Management Area
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