News Topic: Research + Reports

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Research + Reports  Recreation  

06/20/2010 -

Voyageurs National Park, in north central Minnesota, covers 218,000 acres, and water accounts for 84,000 of them.

Those numbers help explain why the state's only national park hosts wolves, eagles, loons and moose -- but few human visitors. Only about a quarter of a million people visit annually, a fraction compared with the 9 million who romp through Great Smoky National Park each year.

News Topic(s): What's New  Water  Research + Reports  Pollution  Air Pollution  

06/18/2010 - Air and water pollution emissions changed little between 2007-8, according to an annual report released this spring by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).  A slowing economy was in part responsible for the lack of change in pollution releases.

 

News Topic(s): Research + Reports  MPCA  Legislature  Funding  DNR  At the Capitol  

03/10/2010 - Governor Pawlenty’s proposed reductions and fund shifts for the state’s 2010 and 2011 budgets run afoul of what voters approved at the polls in November 2008, Conservation Minnesota reported today.

News Topic(s): What's New  Research + Reports  News!  Funding  At the Capitol  Amendment - Clean Water  

01/21/2010 - Good news for Minnesotans:  our budget analysis shows that the Governor and Legislature kept faith with voters in 2009 on conservation funding in the new Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment. As promised to voters who supported the Amendment, our state elected officials did not raid the new funding by diverting it to other purposes.  They also kept a promise not to cut other conservation funds disproportionately.

News Topic(s): What's New  Research + Reports  Funding  

01/21/2010 - Governor Tim Pawlenty and the Legislature kept faith with voter intent and the state constitution in the first year of conservation funding under the 2008 Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, an independent analysis by Conservation Minnesota reported today. Next