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The North Central Hardwood Forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion (no. 51 in the EPA Level III ecoregions of the United States) in central Minnesota, [1] central Wisconsin, [2] and northwestern Lower Michigan, [3] embedded between (clockwise) the Western Corn Belt Plains in the south, the Northern Glaciated Plains, the Red River Valley, the Northern Minnesota Wetlands ...
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge: Bloomington: Hennepin: Minneapolis–Saint Paul: 2,400-acre Long Meadow Lake Unit, Bloomington Education and Visitor Center Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge: Carver: Carver: Minneapolis–Saint Paul: 1,480-acre Rapids Lakes Unit, Rapids Lake Education and Visitor Center MSU Regional Science ...
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 ...
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Located in eastern Marshall County, the contiguous 61,500 acres (249 km 2) are situated in the aspen parkland region of northwest Minnesota. In 1976, 4,000 acres (16 km 2) of the refuge were designated a Wilderness Area. [2] Each year over 20,000 visitors enjoy wildlife viewing on Agassiz Refuge.
The largest wildlife management area in the state at 321,149 acres (129,964 ha), the Red Lake Wildlife Management Area, is located within the forest. The majority of the forest is managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, although a significant portion are tribal lands belonging to the neighboring Red Lake Band of Ojibwe.
The Kabetogama State Forest is a state forest located in Koochiching and Saint Louis counties, Minnesota, United States.The forest borders the Superior National Forest and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the east, the Sturgeon River State Forest to the south, the Nett Lake Indian Reservation to the west, and Voyageurs National Park to the north.
Crane Meadows National Wildlife Refuge It is an essential stop for many species of migrating birds. Located within a large watershed that includes Rice, Skunk and Mud Lakes, Platte and Skunk Rivers , Rice and Buckman Creeks, and sedge meadow wetlands, it harbors one of the largest nesting populations of greater sandhill cranes in Minnesota.