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Saving Minnesota’s Grasslands: Conservation, Cattle & Community

August 13, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog
beef cattle, Chippewa 10%, Chippewa River Watershed Project, DNR, Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, Glacial Lakes Prairie Implementation Team, grasslands, invasive species, Land Stewardship Project, managed rotational grazing, Nature Conservancy, prairies, public lands grazing, Simon Lake, Simon Lake Challenge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Management Areas, wildlife refuges

It’s that age-old struggle: accepting a little short-term disturbance in the name of long-term stability. Dave Trauba regularly faces the challenge of explaining that tradeoff to hunters who visit the Lac Qui…
First Test of 2013 MN Frac Sand Law is Successful

July 31, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Energy, EQB and Environmental Review, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Warming, Health, Land Conservation, Loon Commons blog, oil, rural, Water
clean water, DNR, environmental review, Erickson frac sand mine, fisheries, frac sand mining, Houston County, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, karst geology, Land Stewardship Project, southeastern Minnesota, Tracie Erickson, Trout Stream Setback, trout streams

By Johanna Rupprecht, Land Stewardship Project The owner of a controversial Houston County silica sand mine was notified Monday by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that he must stop mining…