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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 ...
Geography; Location: Pine and Carlton counties, Minnesota, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Elevation: 1,306 feet (398 m): Area: 92,924 acres (37,605 ha): Administration; Established: 1935: Governing body: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: Website: www.dnr.state.mn.us /state _forests /sft00035 /index.html: Ecology; WWF Classification: Western Great Lakes Forests: EPA Classification ...
The history of the forest mirrors that of the majority of northern Minnesota. The area was inhabited by the Ojibwe and the Dakota prior to European settlement.The French fur traders were the first Europeans to arrive to the area in the early eighteenth century, and controlled the fur trade until the 1760s, when British and Canadians came to dominate.
The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge is a 14,000-acre (5,666 ha) National Wildlife Refuge in eastern and central Minnesota. Located just south of the city of Minneapolis , it is one of fourteen Regional Priority Urban Wildlife Refuges in the nation.
The Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest is a 1,016,204 acres (4,112.43 km 2) reserve of current and former forest in Minnesota's Driftless Area.Only 45,000 acres (180 km 2) of the land is state owned, with the remainder owned by private individuals and community groups, governed by easements.
A ceasefire between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian forces (SDF) around the northern Syrian city of Manbij has been extended until the end of this week, State Department spokesperson ...
Turkey has in the past told the U.S. that Ankara could deploy three commando brigades in Syria to fight Islamic State, and to run al-Hol, the detention camp for IS families, Guler said, adding ...
8. Mental Health Education is the New Sex Education. According to the Hims survey, 26% of parents have educated their children about mental health (an equal percentage of moms and dads) but 90% ...