Watershed Management
January 25, 2007We evaluated how Minnesota manages its watersheds and found a complex system of multiple local, state, and federal entities with a mixed record of performance at the local level and inadequate oversight from the Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR). We recommend that the Legislature change BWSR’s governing structure to help ensure it acts in the overall best interests of the state.
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The evaluators for this report: John Patterson, Project Manager, Jan Sandberg, and David Kirchner