HCP VI Supplemental - Shallow Lake Easements - 3c
DU will help state and federal wildlife conservation agencies protect (Part 3c) managed shallow lakes for waterfowl wildlife within HCP project areas by securing permanent DU conservation easements.
To protect shallow lakes (Part 3c), DU will work with private landowners to secure permanent conservation easements on managed shallow lakes. These may include both prairie shallow lakes and forested wild rice lakes managed for wildlife by the Minnesota DNR. DU land protection staff will work with private landowners to purchase or secure donated permanent conservation easements on 20 acres of shoreland or lake outlet tracts. The goal is to protect managed shallow lakes by limiting future shoreland subdivision and development, and to protect outlets and secure permanent access to them for management. Priority shallow lakes will be those actively managed by DNR. DU annually monitors and enforces the terms of all DU conservation easements held through our conservation easement stewardship program.
$1,344,000 is added to Laws 2009, chapter 143, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (e), from the trust fund for the acceleration of agency programs and cooperative agreements. Of this appropriation, $308,000 is to the commissioner of natural resources for agency programs and $1,036,000 is for agreements as follows: $425,000 with Ducks Unlimited, Inc.; $50,000 with National Wild Turkey Federation; $164,000 with the Nature Conservancy; $102,000 with Minnesota Land Trust; $200,000 with the Trust for Public Land; $45,000 with Friends of Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District; and $50,000 to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe to plan, restore, and acquire fragmented landscape corridors that connect areas of quality habitat to sustain fish, wildlife, and plants. The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service is an authorized cooperating partner in the appropriation. Expenditures are limited to the project corridor areas as defined in the work program. Land acquired with this appropriation must be sufficiently improved to meet at least minimum habitat and facility management standards as determined by the commissioner of natural resources. This appropriation may not be used for the purchase of residential structures, unless expressly approved in the work program. All conservation easements must be perpetual and have a natural resource management plan. Any land acquired in fee title by the commissioner of natural resources with money from this appropriation must be designated as an outdoor recreation unit under Minnesota Statutes, section 86A.07. The commissioner may similarly designate any lands acquired in less than fee title. A list of proposed restorations and fee title and easement acquisitions must be provided as part of the required work program. All funding for conservation easements must include a long-term stewardship plan and funding for monitoring and enforcing the agreement.
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