Supporting Natural Resource Protection and Restoration in the Twin Cities Metro through an Exploration of Community Connection to Nature
2018
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Supporting Natural Resource Protection and Restoration in the Twin Cities Metro through an Exploration of Community Connection to Nature
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The Minnesota Land Trust (MLT) serves to protect and restore Minnesota's most vital natural lands
in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for
generations to come. The Land Trust is best known for land protection work through conservation
easements, which permanently protect private landowner’s land from development, keeping the land
in its natural state to benefit wildlife habitat, clean water and more. There are three primary pillars
of the Land Trust’s work: 1) Land Protection 2) Habitat Restoration and 3) Community
Engagement.
The primary objective of this project was to support research and planning efforts for protection,
restoration and engagement in the MLT’s Twin Cities Metro Program area. In particular, the project
focused on better understanding the ways in which communities in the Twin Cities Metro relate to
nature, how those relationships intersect with the core work of MLT, and strategies for engaging
communities and protecting remaining habitat in the region. Historically, MLT has viewed their
Metro Planning area as one large area, covering all and part of 21 counties surrounding the Twin
Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul (see Fig. 3). This approach did not differentiate the diverse needs
and complexities of the planning area and treated planning, protection, restoration and engagement
efforts the same whether they were focusing in Minneapolis or smaller communities like Cokato,
Isanti, or Belle Plaine. This somewhat hampered the land trust’s ability to be responsive and flexible
to the needs of dense metropolitan areas in comparison with smaller rural communities with larger
agricultural and habitat tracts. This project aimed to provide evidence and analysis for a
differentiated approach to planning in the Metro, which provided a sea change for conservation and
engagement planning in the Metro Program Area.
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Wagner, Frank. (2018). Supporting Natural Resource Protection and Restoration in the Twin Cities Metro through an Exploration of Community Connection to Nature. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200082.
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