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Public Waters (PW) Basin and Watercourse Delineations
These are provisional representations of Public Waters Basins (lakes, wetlands) and Watercourses (streams, altered channels) as depicted on the scanned paper regulatory maps and... -
MNDNR Native Plant Communities - Groundwater Subset
This wetland classification scheme was originally developed for a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) effort to establish protective permit thresholds for... -
State Peat Leases
The State of Minnesota issues peat leases on state-owned and state-administered fee surface interests. These layers are of active or historic State peat leases, administered by... -
State Mineral Leases
The State of Minnesota issues mineral leases on state-owned and state-administered fee mineral interests. The lease types include iron ore, taconite, industrial mineral,... -
Inventory of Dams in Minnesota
The data set includes information on dam locations in Minnesota and associated permits. -
State Surface Interests Administered by MNDNR
State owned surface interests, including fee surface, easement in, lease in, and agreement, administered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, mapped to the PLS... -
MNDNR Buildings
This dataset contains points representing MN DNR owned Building locations. The data is derived from the ARCHIBUS database maintained by the DNR Division of Operations Services.... -
MNDNR Culvert Inventory Suite
The DNR Culvert Inventory Suite is comprised of 3 related components for the collection, storage, edit/review and distribution of stream crossings, culverts, and bridge data. It... -
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... -
Minnesota Walk-In Access Sites
The Minnesota Walk-In Access site (WIA) GIS data represents areas of private land that have been made open to the public for the purpose of walk-in (foot travel) only hunting... -
Springs in Minnesota
Inventory of springs in Minnesota. These data are collected and compiled by the Minnesota DNR as a tool to help create awareness of and appreciation for this resource so spring... -
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... -
Historical Public Waters Inventory (PWI) Maps
To create this raster layer of Minnesota DNR’s original county Public Waters Inventory (PWI) maps, the maps were scanned, their collars removed, and then georectified and... -
Lakes with DNR Fisheries IBI Scores
This layer shows the Fish-based Index of Biological Integrity (IBI) Scores for MN lakes as calculated by DNR Fisheries. Scores range from 0-100, with higher scores indicating... -
Central Region Regionally Significant Ecological Areas
This is an analysis of regionally significant Terrestrial and Wetland Ecological Areas in the seven county metropolitan area. Individual forest, grassland and wetland models... -
Hunter Walking Trails
Hunter walking trails are managed to provide non-motorized hunting opportunities. Management may include maintenance of parking lots, gates, signs, mowing, and habitat... -
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... -
Listed Infested Waters
These are water bodies (lakes, streams/rivers, wetlands) listed as infested with any of these aquatic invasive species:bighead carpBrazilian waterweed brittle naiadEurasian... -
Lake Basin Littoral Zone
15-Foot Standard: Polygons showing the DNR Fisheries calculated littoral zone based on a standard 15-foot depth contour. For this standard, all lake areas 0-15 feet in depth are... -
State Boundary, Minnesota
This is the standard Minnesota State Boundary dataset that is used by MNDNR and many other state agencies. It is derived from the related dataset "County Boundaries, Minnesota"...
