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The mission of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is to work with citizens to conserve and manage the state's natural resources, to provide outdoor recreation opportunities, and to provide for commercial uses of natural resources in a way that creates a sustainable quality of life.
About the mission statement
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources works to integrate and sustain the interdependent values of a healthy environment, a sustainable economy, and livable communities. DNR’s integrated resource management strategy shares stewardship responsibility with citizens and partners to manage for multiple interests. DNR protects the state’s natural heritage by conserving the diversity of natural lands, waters, and fish and wildlife that provide the foundation for Minnesota’s recreational and natural resource-based economy (M.S. 84, M.S. 97A). DNR manages natural lands such as forests, wetlands, and native prairies; maintains healthy populations of fish and wildlife; and protects rare plant and animal communities throughout the state. DNR manages the state’s water resources, sustaining healthy waterways and ground water resources. DNR provides access to enrich public outdoor recreational opportunities, such as hunting, fishing, wildlife-watching, camping, skiing, hiking, biking, motorized recreation, and conservation education through a state outdoor recreation system that includes parks, trails, wildlife management areas, scientific and natural areas, canoe and boating routes, and other facilities (M.S. 86A). DNR supports natural resource-based economies, managing state forest lands for multiple forest values (M.S. 89), ensuring the maximum long-term economic return from school trust lands (M.S. 127A), and providing other economic opportunities in a manner consistent with sound natural resource conservation and management principles.
Is this the type of management we get
from the Minnesota DNR?
Zebra Mussels on a Native Clam
About 4 month old Zebra Mussels attached to a sunken boat.
This boat was cleaned completely in May of 2010.
This photo was taken on 9/26/2010
This is the extra bonus you will receive when the DNR just has to install a new boat ramp. They have no plan to effectively control these invasive species. There are also many more invasive species with no real cure or control. The DNR's main control idea is education.
Ask the people from Pike Lake,
near Duluth, MN,
how well the DNR plan works!
Perhaps Eurasian Milfoil
would be better.
We could contact someone on Lake Minnetonka to
see how they like it.
I wonder how they like paying the bill for the cleanup?
What does the DNR do when these invasives infest a lake? They tell people to clean their boats, watercraft, and gear to help stop the spread.
The DNR does not pay for the cleanup!!
If this is what you want the lakes in this area to turn into, sit on your hands. If you want these problems addressed, contact your state legislator so they can take some sort of action. The DNR seems to have lost parts of their own motto. You have to ask yourself what happened to the part about sustaining healthy waterways.