The DNR’s new map enables a close-up look at all of the state’s lakes and streams, shown in blue in the section above, and also its public ditches, rendered in green. Apart from its importance as a ...

If other counties find errors similar to those found in McLeod County, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources may have a hard time implementing new buffer strip regulations as quickly as it ...

Philadelphia’s new zoning code went live late last month, but a key environmental provision—providing a 50-foot buffer to development for the city’s rivers and streams—won’t take effect until City ...

The Department of Natural Resources has released the first of two planned updates to Minnesota’s buffer map that was first released in July. The map shows public waters and public ditches requiring ...

ST. PAUL-Minnesota farmers may not need to install as many mandated buffer strips as originally thought, but it still will cost millions of dollars to comply with a new state law. After announcing ...

Minnesota farmers now know whether the waterways bordering their crops will require strips of vegetation to protect water quality and how wide those strips need to be. The Department of Natural ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources today announced its schedule to produce maps required under the buffer initiative passed by the Legislature earlier this year. This fall, the DNR will use ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. - Nearly a year after Minnesota's controversial buffer program was signed into law, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources continues to make progress on releasing preliminary ...

ST. PAUL -- Landowners, counties and watershed districts are now reviewing the preliminary map of Minnesota public waters requiring protective buffers to try to improve the state’s drinking water and ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — Soil and Water Conservation Districts have been flooded with questions from landowner who have questions about options involving buffers in Minnesota. Tom Gile, a buffers and soil ...