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Read up on the latest conservation news in Minnesota.

Group rates Minneapolis as top U.S. city park system

06/05/2013
By: Larry Copeland, [USA Today]

Minneapolis, where 94% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park, has the U.S.' best park system, according to new rankings by a national non-profit conservation group. read more »

Push is on to save a chunk of the Mississippi for the people

08/20/2011
By: Bill Marchel, [The Star Tribune]

This story actually started more than a dozen years ago when Minnesotans with foresight enough to realize this state needed to do more to protect our valuable natural resources began an effort to add a dedicated sales tax to our existing sales tax. The dedicated tax would go directly to the outdoors. read more »

Conservation groups rally around money for public lands

01/07/2011
By: John Myers, [Duluth News Tribune ]

Minnesota conservation groups released reports which they say show the state benefits greatly from conservation and public lands. The reports also show that money aimed for those projects shouldn???t be diverted to solve the state???s budget mess, the conservationists say. read more »