Minnesota Coastal Vulnerability Assessment Protocol for Public Access Sites

Find out how vulnerable your Lake Superior public access site is with this easy-to-use protocol.

• Assess sensitivity, exposure, and adaptive capacity all in one place.
• Allows you to complete the assessment on assets you identify within a larger site.
• Useable by a wide range of audiences. Anyone with first-hand knowledge about the site or comfortable gleaning information from web maps to an individual very familiar with GIS will be able to work through it.
• Runs off Excel.
• Uses Minnesota specific data sources.
• Modeled after work by the National Park Service.

Training

Material from the June training sessions

• Vulnerability Assessment Training Agenda
• Vulnerability Assessment Training Slides

Protocol

Tip: Make sure to check out the “Read Me” file in the scoring worksheet.

• Vulnerability Assessment Instructions
• Vulnerability Assessment Scoring Sheet

Completed Vulnerability Assessments

• Flood Bay State Wayside
• Gooseberry Falls State Park
• Minnesota Point Scientific and Natural Area
• Temperance River State Park
• Twin Points Public Water Access