Minnesota Forest Legacy Partnership

Minnesota's Forest Legacy Partnership is working with landowners, loggers, outdoor enthusiasts and communities to preserve our forests for timber, jobs, recreation and wildlife habitat.

The Partnership has established a multi-million dollar capital fund that will help ensure sustainable forestry, protect wildlife habitat and guarantee public access in the large, industrial forests in the Itasca area of north-central Minnesota. The Partnership has set a three-year, $26 million goal to conserve working forests. The Minnesota Forest Legacy Partnership includes The Conservation Fund, the Blandin Foundation, Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Minnesota Forest Resources Council, Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, Minnesota Forest Industries Inc., The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land.

In 2007, the Partnership acquired a conservation easement on 51,000 acres of working forests, habitat and recreation lands in the Minnesota Northwoods. Read more>

In the biggest conservation opportunity in modern state history, The Conservation Fund is working to protect more than 187,000 acres of prized working forestland at the upper reaches of the Mississippi River in north-central Minnesota through a conservation easement. Coupled with other forest conservation projects, this project will create more conserved recreation land than Minnesota’s current state park system. The project will protect jobs, preserve wildlife habitat and ensure permanent public access for outdoor recreation. The project is supported by the Forest Legacy Partnership. Read More >