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2. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources - Wikipedia

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   The first agency created to protect the state's resources was founded in 1931 by the Minnesota Legislature as the Minnesota Department of Conservation. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] When the Department of Conservation was created, it brought together four separate state entities: forestry, game and fish, drainage and waters, and lands and timber, while adding a ...

3. Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is acquiring remnant prairie tracts for the refuge in both easement and fee title interests from willing sellers. Presently, the refuge is approximately 5,000 acres (20 km 2 ) in size and consists of 49 units. 41 units are protected by conservation easements totaling 2,500 acres.

4. Conservation easement - Wikipedia

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   Conservation easement boundary sign. In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights ...

5. Private landowner assistance program - Wikipedia

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   Conservation of Private Grazing Land Program (CPGL) Conservation of Private Grazing Land Program (CPGL) provides private landowners with the necessary tools to maintain high quality grasslands. The primary agenda of the CPGL is to increase the diversity of the land and aid in water managing practices for grazing.

6. Land trust - Wikipedia

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   An easement may apply to all or a portion of the property, and need not require public access. Each conservation easement is carefully crafted to meet the needs of the landowner while not jeopardizing the conservation values of the land. [8] [page needed] In between selling land or an easement to a land trust is an option called a bargain sale.

7. Timber company enters conservation agreement with land trust

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   Under the conservation easement, GreenWood Resources — a timber investment company that manages lands previously owned by Weyerhaeuser and other timber companies — will continue to own the ...