Outdoor Heritage Council recommends funding FMR
State funds would help restore and enhance important habitat, such as Pine Bend Bluffs.
Photo: Karen Schik
The Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, established to make annual recommendations to the legislature on how Outdoor Heritage funds should be used, is recommending funding for the Metro Big Rivers Habitat Project. As a project partner, FMR would receive some of these funds, providing the legislature appropriates the money according to council recommendations in the upcoming session.
As the name suggests, the Metro Big Rivers Habitat Project seeks to protect and restore important habitat along major metro-area rivers. Project partners including FMR, Great River Greening, Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc., and the Trust for Public Land will focus these funds on habitat protection and restoration at sites along the Minnesota, St. Croix and Mighty Mississippi rivers.
FMR plans to utilize its share of appropriated funds to restore and enhance forested areas in the Pine Bend Bluffs SNAand to protect additional high quality habitat in the surrounding Pine Bend Bluffs Natural Area.
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