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Stressors to Impaired or Vulnerable Lakes (Based on Fish IBI)
This layer summarizes the stressors to impaired or vulnerable lakes, which are identified from fish-based index of biological integrity (IBI) scores and aquatic life use... -
Watershed Health Assessment Scores
The Watershed Health Index approach identifies and analyzes data that characterizes the principal components of watershed health at the Major Watershed and Catchment scales. For... -
Minnesota Snowmobile Trails, 2024-2025 season
This layer shows all of the current snowmobile trails open to the public in Minnesota, regardless of funding source. -
Groundwater Provinces of Minnesota 2021
The Minnesota Groundwater Provinces map summarizes aquifer and groundwater resource differences at the regional level. Some parts of the state have several groundwater resources... -
Minnesota Water Trails
This dataset represents state water trails in the State of Minnesota as designated through legislation and recognized by the Department of Natural Resources. The alignments... -
Groundwater Recharge through Restorable Wetlands in the Bonanza Valley
The Bonanza Valley Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) plan describes actions that will assure that groundwater use will remain sustainable as defined by Minnesota statutes. One... -
Water-Table Elevation and Depth to Water Table, Minnesota Hydrogeology Atlas ...
This dataset estimates the water-table elevation from three primary sources: depth to water table in saturated soils from Natural Resources Conservation Service data (which are... -
Calcareous Fens - Source Feature Points
Pursuant to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 103G.223, this database contains points that represent calcareous fens as defined in Minnesota Rules, part 8420.0935,... -
Lakes of Biological Significance
This layer shows lakes meeting criteria for Lakes of Biological Significance (LBS) in Minnesota. Lakes were identified and classified by DNR subject matter experts on objective... -
Rare Natural Communities
Rare natural communities are one of several “Special Considerations” listed in the Wetland Conservation Act rules for consideration under wetland replacement application.The... -
Minnesota Elk Hunt Zones
This data set represents areas within the northwest portion of the state of Minnesota that are open to elk hunting. A limited number of licenses are offered to Minnesota... -
Aitkin County Breeding Owl Records 1973-2014
This dataset maps and describes breeding owl observations made by Warren Nelson from 1973-2014. -
Migratory Waterfowl Feeding and Resting Areas
This resource contains 2 feature classes: 1) A polygon feature class of lakes completely or partially designated as Migratory Waterfowl Feeding & Resting Areas, as listed in... -
Cisco Refuge Lakes, Minnesota
This layer shows Minnesota's cisco refuge lakes. These lakes were identified by the University of Minnesota and Minnesota DNR Fisheries Research (Xing Fang, Liping Jiang, Peter... -
St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC)
In an effort to clean up the most polluted areas in the Great Lakes, the United States and Canada committed to working with State and Provincial governments to develop Remedial... -
Eastern Seed Zones (ESZ v2.2) in Minnesota
These seed zones were developed to help the National Forest System address sustainable forest management and ecosystem restoration challenges related to climate change in a... -
Normal Annual Precipitation Average, Minnesota, 1971-2000
MNDNR processing of precipitation data gathered by a variety of entities over 30 year period, from . Data sources include National Weather Service, DNR Forestry, Soil and Water... -
2014-2017 High Resolution Orthoimagery, 1/2 meter resolution, Northern Minnesota
This dataset contains leaf-on 4-band red, green, blue, infrared (RGBI) digital orthophoto imagery produced at 1/2 meter resolution from new aerial photography captured in Fall... -
2018 High Resolution Orthoimagery, 1/2 meter resolution, Southeast Minnesota
This dataset contains leaf-on 4-band red, green, blue, infrared (RGBI) digital orthophoto imagery produced at 1/2 meter resolution from new aerial photography captured in Fall... -
2019 High Resolution Orthoimagery, 1/2 meter resolution, East Central Minnesota
This dataset contains leaf-on 4-band red, green, blue, infrared (RGBI) digital orthophoto imagery produced at 50 centimeter resolution from new aerial photography captured in...
