Spatial (GIS) footprints that connect to more than 2,000 scanned mineral exploration documents from the Lehmann Family Fund Collection (including the Polaris Joint Venture). The...

The Groundwater Dominated Lakes feature class is derived from the DNR Lakes and Open Water and DNR Level 09 Autocatchment datasets. It represents lakes that have watershed area...

Inland Commercial Fishing Areas

Spatial (GIS) footprints of published and open-file projects since 1976 sourced from the Minnesota DNR's Mineral Potential Section. Most of the footprints have a URL link to a...

The Metro Conservation Corridors (MeCC) grow out of the natural resource analysis work done by the DNR in the late '90s, documented in the Metro Greenprint publication...

This dataset delineates the spatial range of wild pheasant populations in Minnesota as of 2002 by dividing the MN state boundary into 2 units: pheasant range and non-range.

This dataset estimates the distribution of surficial sand units in Minnesota, from previously published surficial geology maps by the Minnesota Geological Survey, for use with...

This dataset displays the results of a prairie/savanna change analysis study completed in May 2010. The area reviewed consists of 1,521 sites identified by Minnesota County...

Roads administered by the Commissioner of Natural Resources to provide access to lands administered by the Division of Forestry. These roads are generally open to the public for...

This layer represents ponds included in DNR's Fishing in the Neighborhood (FiN) program, described online at: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fishing/fin/index.html. This program...

Beginning in 1975 and continuing today, there has been a renewed interest in peat for horticulture and for fuel. This interest prompted the development of the Peat Inventory...

The 1997 legislature directed the Minnesota DNR to survey active railroad rights-of-way for native prairie remnants. This data layer represents the locations of these remnants,...

Farmland Furbearer Zone

Annual Minnesota Bear harvest, summarized by bear permit areas.

USGS 1:250,000 scale Quadrangle Map Index with quadrangle name and standard identifiers.

This layer contains designated Wild, Scenic & Recreational Rivers in Minnesota as specified in 1997 MN Rules 6105.Segments of rivers are coded as state-designated (Y),...

This coverage provides information for all three levels of the Ecological Classification System (ECS): Provinces, Sections, and Subsections. The boundaries of the polygons of...

Spatial (GIS) data of dimension stone inventory sites in northern Minnesota. Collection began in 1989.

This dataset shows where largescale tree canopy damage was delineated in aerial surveys in 2021. Only forest disturbances were mapped if they were occurring at the time of the...

This layer is the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) 10-year stand exam list - a forest resource management plan specifying which forest stands the DNR will visit...