ST. PAUL - Minnesota landowners are to have access to maps showing where they need to install buffer strips by July 1, but questions, distrust and clarifications remain. The Minnesota Legislative ...

ST. PAUL-Minnesota officials released maps showing landowners what water needs plant buffers around it, and how deep the buffers must be. The long-awaited release came Tuesday morning. State law ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota officials released maps showing landowners what water needs plant buffers around it, and how deep the buffers must be. The long-awaited release came Tuesday morning. State law ...

WORTHINGTON, Minn. - Nearly a year after Minnesota's controversial buffer program was signed into law, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources continues to make progress on releasing preliminary ...

The maps are part of a plan approved in the previous legislative session. It calls for 50-foot buffer strips on lakes and rivers, but keeps the current 161/2-foot buffer strip requirement along ...

The Upper Tukituki River in flood in July. The Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has extended the gravel extraction buffer zone in the Tukituki catchment, so farmers can use the gravel for critical cyclone ...

The Department of Natural Resources has released the first of two planned updates to Minnesota’s buffer map that was first released in July. The map shows public waters and public ditches requiring ...