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The Division of Forestry was founded in 1911 as the Minnesota Forest Service, predating the Department of Natural Resources and its predecessor Department of Conservation. The mission of the Division of Forestry is to maintain healthy forests. This is done through cooperative forest management, fire management, and state land management.
The Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) provides assistance to non-industrial private forest owners by encouraging and enabling them for long-term forest management. The program provides landowners with information on development and multi-source planning in an effort to manage private forests for goods and services.
Today, private landowners are encouraged to manage the forest through organizations such as the Minnesota Forestry Association, [8] and to enroll in Woodland Stewardship Plans. [9] Itasca County, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, [5] manages tax forfeited public properties in Trout Lake Township for timber; cover type aspen-birch. [10]
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website, 2,830 acres, environmental education programs and events Springbrook Nature Center: Fridley: Anoka: Minneapolis–Saint Paul: 127 acres, operated by the City Sugarloaf Cove Interpretive Center: Schroeder: Cook: Arrowhead: website, operated by the North Shore Stewardship Association, education, preservation and restoration of North ...
The State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee Role The State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee is identified in the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. The committee's consulting and recommending duties for the Forest Legacy Program are identified in the act and the FLP guidelines, and include the following:
Moriarty is a former Sea Scout, Quartermaster Award recipient, and adult volunteer. He published six books on Minnesota’s native amphibians and reptiles, and is the senior manager of wildlife and acting director of natural resources management for the Three Rivers Park District in Minnesota. His Hornaday Gold Medal was approved in October 2018.
The Stewardship Contracting Reauthorization and Improvement Act was a bill introduced in the 113th Congress by U.S. Senator Jeff Flake.The bill would have given the federal government more authority to enter into what are known as "forest stewardship contracts", with the goal of reducing the risk of forest wildfires.