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Resources for Becoming a Star Lake or Star River

This page provides annotated links to a variety of web based resources that may be helpful in developing lake management plans, building organizational capacity, and enhancing the ecological integrity of your lake or stream.
Management Plan Resources

Developing a Lake Management Plan:  Colloboratively developed document that provides guidance for developing a writing a lake managment plan.

Minnesota DNR LakeFinder:  the key starting point for all management plans.  Includes links to maps, fisheries information, water quality data, and fish consumption advisories.

USGS Interactive Watersheds:  Provides descriptive information on watershed areas and upstream contributing watersheds.

MPCA Water Quality Data: summary information from citizen and agency monitoring efforts. 

Minnesota DNR Data Deli:  Provides a variety of data layers for use in GIS applications.

Wikipedia actually has pretty good background information on many Minnesota lakes (see, for example, Otter Tail Lake).  It might even be a good place to develop and disseminate your collaborative and evolving management plan.

Building Capacity

Minnesota Waters:  citizen protecting our lakes and rivers.  An excellent partner in capacity building activities.

Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts: a great place to connect with local technical expertise and potential cost-share resources.

Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment News:  a current Google news search on developments related to 2008 Constitutional Amendment the dedicated 3/8% Sales Tax increase.  See also TheAmendment.org which tracks how amendment dollars are allocated.

MPCA Citizen Lake and River Monitoring Programs

Limnology Primer from Beltrami SWCD:  a series of hyper-linked concept maps on a variety of topics related to Minnesota lakes and streams.



Enhancing Integrity

Minnesota DNR Restore Your Shore

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