Action Alert! Your action is needed to make sure the current Shoreland Rules Update is implemented statewide. Minnesota Waters; the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA); 1,000 Friends of Minnesota, and other partners are working to promote the timely implementation and enactment of improved statewide shoreland rules.

The Shoreland Rules Update would implement important, increased shoreland protection rules—a process originally scheduled for completion in 2009. Please contact Governor Tim Pawlenty and DNR Commission Mark Hanson today.

Recent history of Shoreland Rules Update process

During the past two years stakeholder groups, local government unit representatives and citizens from across the state have been participating in Minnesota’s statewide Shoreland Rules Update A similar process to develop the alternative shoreland standards was completed in 2005. In the past several years, Minnesotans have collectively spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours to create the much needed and more protective shoreland rules. To date, none of these rules has been adopted statewide.

The present shoreland rulemaking process was originally scheduled for completion in 2009, yet strategic steps in that process have yet to begin.  Minnesota Waters, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA), 1,000 Friends of Minnesota, and several other partnering organizations are working to promote the timely implementation and enactment of improved statewide shoreland rules.  The partnering organizations are now focusing on updating key legislators to work with the Department of Natural Resources and the Governor’s office for the implementation of the updated shoreland rules in 2010.

Your help is needed to ensure these rules are implemented statewide – and ultimately provide the shoreland protection needed for Minnesota’s irreplaceable lakes, streams and wildlife. Citizens are often the most effective advocates in our work.  Please contact your legislators, Governor Tim Pawlenty and DNR Commissioner Mark Holsten today. Let them know the time has come for statewide shoreland rules that will truly protect Minnesota’s unique waterscape for future generations.

Policymaker contact information

Office of Governor Tim Pawlenty
130 State Capitol
75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.St. Paul, MN 55155
tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us
800-657-3717

DNR Commissioner Mark Holsten
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155-4040
mark.holsten@dnr.state.mn.us
651-259-5555

District and Legislator Finder:
www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/Districtfinder.asp