The DNR’s new map enables a close-up look at all of the state’s lakes and streams, shown in blue in the section above, and also its public ditches, rendered in green. MinnPost’s journalists are out in ...
Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...
Philadelphia’s new zoning code went live late last month, but a key environmental provision—providing a 50-foot buffer to development for the city’s rivers and streams—won’t take effect until City ...
If other counties find errors similar to those found in McLeod County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources may have a hard time implementing new buffer strip regulations as quickly as it ...
ST. PAUL-Minnesota farmers may not need to install as many mandated buffer strips as originally thought, but it still will cost millions of dollars to comply with a new state law. After announcing ...
WORTHINGTON, Minn. - Nearly a year after Minnesota's controversial buffer program was signed into law, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources continues to make progress on releasing preliminary ...
ST. PAUL -- Landowners, counties and watershed districts are now reviewing the preliminary map of Minnesota public waters requiring protective buffers to try to improve the state’s drinking water and ...
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Soil and Water Conservation Districts have been flooded with questions from landowner who have questions about options involving buffers in Minnesota. Tom Gile, a buffers and soil ...
As part of the state’s commitment to protecting clean water, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources last week released the map of public waters and public ditches requiring permanent vegetative ...