Long Range Conservation Plans
and Strategies

Commissioner's Office

• Conservation Agenda
  A Strategic Conservation Agenda 2003-2007 defines what DNR believes is important, what we intend to accomplish, and how we will hold ourselves accountable to specific conservation results. It describes 91 measurable indicators with targets in six performance areas.

• Department Results
  Minnesota's 25 cabinet departments and one other agency were asked to identify their priority goals with related performance measures and results.

• Trends in Outdoor Recreation (1 page 11K)
  Indicators of nature-based outdoor recreation participation changes over the last 10 years for U.S. and MN

Ecological Resources

• Tomorrow's Habitat for the Wild and Rare
  This is a strategic plan focused on managing Minnesota's populations of "species in greatest conservation need."

• Prairie Pothole Joint Venture Implementation Plan
  This plan provides a road map for integrating the conservation of all migratory birds under one framework.

• Scientific and Natural Areas (SNA) Program Long Range Plan (17 pages 42K) This plan outlines the DNR's goal for the SNA system. The SNA policy set forth guidelines for identification and evaluation, designation and registration, management and uses of SNAs.

Fish and Wildlife

• Minnesota’s Aquatic Management Area Acquisition Plan (57 pages 1,138K)
  This report summarizes recommendations from the Aquatic Management Area (AMA) Acquisition Planning Committee for both short-term and long-term acquisition priorities and goals.

• DNR Fish and Wildlife Plans (2 pages 25K)
  Several key plans identifying habitat goals for fish and wildlife populations. Habitat goals are also addressed through more focused plans and programs.

• Fisheries 2003 Long Range Plans (34 pages 317K)
  A comprehensive fish and wildlife management plan to communicate to our clientele how Fish and Wildlife is going to invest in the State’s fisheries resources.

• Minnesota's Wildlife Management Area Acquisition -The Next 50 Years- (33 pages 3,707K)
  The recommendations of the citizens committee report represents the directions that the WMA land acquisition program should take for the next fifty years.

• Wildlife Strategic Plan (26 pages 182K)
  A Vision for Wildlife and its Use – Goals and Outcomes. This strategic plan will guide FAW in a specific direction, consistent with its mission for wildlife resources, and will help allocate human and financial resources.

Forestry

• Division of Forestry response to TPL-TNC (3 pages 157K)
  A list of statewide/regional plans for acquisition, development, recovery and restoration.

Parks and Recreation

• Summary of visitors to all parks 2000 - 2007 (1 page 28K)
  Total visitors, campers, group campers, and camper cabin guests.

• Division of Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan 2006-2011 (49 pages 4.95 Mb)
  This strategic plan focuses on five core areas including the challenges within each of the three mission areas, the changing workforce and the administrative structure needed to provide a park system.

• Division of Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan Executive Summary (4 pages fold in half, 291 Kb)
  Minnesota State Parks Everyone’s Country Estate Strategic Plan 2006-2011. Six-year strategic plan to focus efforts in achieving its three-part statutory mission

• Division of Parks and Recreation Biennial Strategic Workplan (16 pages, 100 Kb)
  This biennial workplan incorporates 15 of the 29 goals listed in the Division’s 2006 – 2011 Strategic Plan.