Adopt goals to revegetate shoreland and create a local program or outreach effort to help property owners with revegetation.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Collaborate with DNR and/or others to assess shoreland quality and set restoration goals in the comprehensive or other plan; locally promote revegetation incentives and technical assistance. |
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Achieve 1-star and report progress toward meeting goals for restoration of a specific percentage of shoreland; and/or partner with locally based organizations to change property owner perceptions of what socially acceptable and attractive shorelands are. |
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Enact a point-of-sale regulation that ensures shoreland revegetation as property is sold. |
Resources
- Find resources on maintaining and restoring natural shorelines from the MN Dept. of Natural Resources (DNR).
- The Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates “lake steward program” works through local lake associations to change perceptions of what are attractive shorelands.
- Score Your Shore is a tool from the DNR to assess habitat conditions of developed lake lots, which can be used to set and track metric goals for shoreland revegetation and improvement.
- Restore Your Shore Native Plant Encyclopedia from the DNR guides shoreland vegetation.
- The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources and the MN Dept. of Natural Resources routinely fund restoration projects.
- See the Minnesota Shoreland Management Resource Guide (University of MN Water Resources Center) and the Minnesota Association of Floodplain Managers.
- See best management practices for shoreland properties (MN Extension) and other resources from the MN Dept. of Natural Resources.
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