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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... -
Aquifer Properties - Public Version
The geodatabase contains a table and a featureclass with values for transmissivity, hydraulic conductivity, and storativity entered into the aquifer properties... -
Public Water Access Sites in Minnesota
This geodatabase contains authoritative GIS data for MNDNR Parks and Trails-administered public water access sites. It also contains information about free public water access... -
Bald Eagle Nest Locations
The data set contains polygons derived from records from the following data sources: NHIS Observation Database, USFWS, eBird, iNaturalist, and independent datasets compiled by... -
Groundwater Management Areas, Minnesota
A Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) is the surface and subsurface area within which a GWMA Plan, approved by the commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, is... -
Land Cover - Minnesota Land Cover Classification System
Land cover data set based on the Minnesota Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS) coding scheme. This data was produced using a combination of aerial photograph interpretation... -
North/South Furbearer Zones
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Bobcat, Fisher, and Marten Zone
Bobcat, Fisher, and Marten Zone -
USGS 1:6000 (Quarter-Quarter 7 1/2 Minute) Quadrangle Index
This is a mathematically generated grid in which each polygon represents one quarter of the already quartered 225 second (or 3 3/4 minute) data resource, or a quarter-quarter of...