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Community values • What is known about local values and concerns regarding Resources natural resources? DNR web pages Many natural resource data layers, • Is this inventory process coordinated with a community including native plant communities participation or visioning process in which local people are mapped by the Minnesota County identifying the importance they place on natural resources? Biological Survey, are available on • Are such processes being used to help give direction or identify the"data deli"at priorities for natural resource conservation? deli.dnr.state.mn.us. Information about rare species, C. Inventory Content native plant communities,and land Natural resources to be inventoried protection options are available on The community needs to develop a list of the types of natural the DNR's web site at resources whose locations and characteristics should be identified www.dnr.state.mn.us/ecological_se and mapped in the natural resource inventory. The decision on vices/nhnrp. which resources to inventory should be based upon which natural resources are most important to the local economy and its citizens and/or it may be ones most unique and/or threatened. Natural Definition resources which may be inventoried include the following (with native plant community more specifics provided on some of these in the next sections): A group of native plants(plants • existing land cover, including the types of forests, wetlands, indigenous to the site)that interact other types of vegetation, agricultural lands, impervious with ach other and their neatly surface, etc. environment in ways not greatly altered by modern human activity or • significant or sensitive native plant communities (see below) by introduced organisms. • ecological landscapes (e.g.,using the Ecological Classification System) • species that are endangered,threatened or of special concern Resources (see below) Ecological Classification System • game and non-game wildlife and wildlife habitat (ECS) • forest resources (see below) The ecological land classification is • wetlands, rivers, streams, and lakes part of a nationwide mapping • surface and groundwater quantity and quality system developed to improve our • soil types and suitabilities ability to manage natural resources • landforms, such as hills, streams, and watersheds on a sustainable basis. It is a • geological hazards, such as floodplains,highly erodible soils, method to identify,describe, and and areas of karst geological formations map progressively smaller areas of aggregate resources, such as sand and gravel deposits land of increasingly uniform • ecological characteristics. • mineral resources, including precious and ferrous minerals Associations of biotic and • local energy sources environmental factors that directly • greenways and habitat connections between sensitive areas affect or indirectly express • status of land conservation (e.g., public ownership as protected differences in energy, moisture, and open space and/or as park, enrollment in CRP, etc.) nutrient supplies are used. These • existing trails and public accesses and their distribution relative factors include climate,geology, to human populations topography,soil, hydrology and vegetation. Natural Resource Guidance Checklist-Natural Resource Inventory&Analysis for City or County-December 2001 2