Do you live along the Riverway or within the watershed?  You can help preserve the Riverway by taking care of your own property.  Conserving your Blufflands:  A Management Guide for St. Croix River Property Owners , was created by the Minnesota DNR and Great River Greening to help property owners along the Lower St. Croix River.  Take a look and see if there is any information you can use.   

If you have questions about being a property owner, please e-mail us.

The National Park Service is planning to prepare an Environmental Assessment for a Great Lakes Invasive Plant Management Plan for the following ten parks located in the Great Lakes region: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Grand Portage National Monument, Ice Age National Scenic Trail, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Isle Royale National Park, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, and Voyageurs National Park.

The scope of the Great Lakes Invasive Plant Management Plan Environmental Assessment (IPMP/ EA) is to develop a plan that identifies long-term management tools that would reduce the impacts of (or threats from) invasive plants to natural and cultural resources and provide opportunities for restoring native plant communities and cultural landscapes. This IPMP/EA is intended to provide strategies for park staff to manage terrestrial and emergent wetland invasive plants within park units and National Park Service  managed lands within the designated boundaries of the 10 Great Lakes parks.

The formal public scoping period for the IPMP/EA will be spring of 2011.  The general public will be encouraged to provide input on the proposed IPMP during this time.  Once the draft Environmental Assessment is completed it will be made available for a 30-day public review and comment period. The National Park Service anticipates that the Draft IPMP/EA will be published for public review in the spring of 2012.

Public Scoping Brochure

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