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  2. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Wikipedia

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    The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or Minnesota DNR, is the agency of the U.S. state of Minnesota charged with conserving and managing the state's natural resources. The agency maintains areas such as state parks , state forests , recreational trails , and recreation areas as well as managing minerals , wildlife , and forestry ...

  3. List of ecoregions in Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Minnesota ecoregions map prepared in 2007 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The list of ecoregions in Minnesota provides an overview to the ecoregions (see also, ecosystem) in the U.S. state of Minnesota, [1] as defined separately by the Environmental Protection Agency/Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the World ...

  4. Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas - Wikipedia

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    Fossil evidence [1] The SNA Program is housed within the Division of Ecological and Water Resources at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. [2] The primary goal of the program is to ensure that none of Minnesota's natural heritage is lost from any ecological region of the state.

  5. Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park - Wikipedia

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    The park is in Breitung Township, on the shore of Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota's Vermilion Range. It has become a popular tourist site, often visited on the way to and from Ely and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. [citation needed] The state park is operated under the Department of Natural Resources.

  6. List of Minnesota state parks - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] A Minnesota state park is an area of land in the U.S. state of Minnesota preserved by the state for its natural, historic, or other resources. Each was created by an act of the Minnesota Legislature and is maintained by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The Minnesota Historical Society operates sites

  7. Natural history of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    They naturally reproduce in 260 lakes throughout the state, and are stocked in 1,300 other lakes by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The lakes contain other sport fish such as smallmouth and largemouth bass, muskellunge , and northern pike , and streams in the southeast are populated by brook , brown , and rainbow trout .

  8. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - Wikipedia

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    The BWCAW within the Superior National Forest. The BWCAW extends along 150 miles (240 km) of the Canadian border in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. The combined region of the BWCAW, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Ontario's Quetico and La Verendrye provincial parks make up a large area of contiguous wilderness lakes and forests called the "Quetico-Superior country ...

  9. Geology of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Map of Minnesota bedrock by age. Shaded relief image: Superior Upland in the northeast, the flat Red River Valley in the northwest, Central Minnesota's irregular landscape, the Coteau des Prairies and Minnesota River in the southwest, and the southeast's dissected Driftless Area along the Mississippi River below its confluences with the Minnesota and St. Croix in East Central Minnesota