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EXISTING LAND COVER & ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) developed a system called the Minnesota <br />Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS), which integrates cultural and vegetation <br />features of the landscape into one comprehensive land classification system. This <br />information was used as a basis for the site evaluation, which was conducted by FMR's <br />ecologist in the summer of 2015. AL <br />For determining target plant communities for restoration (Table considered the <br />following: 1) historic conditions, 2) existing conditions, 3) rela ' e . benefits, and 4) <br />the desires of the City of Elk River. Relative effort vs. benefit s y me at if the <br />amount of energy and work that needs to go into restori r cular coi is too <br />great, in terms of the benefits received, then restoratio ou not be recom ed. This <br />helps us determine the optimal and most suitable g for re ation. Targe <br />communities are in accordance with the DNR field an escribed below. <br />As a guideline for the target plant community goals, we u <br />Plant Communities of Minnesota: the East adleof Fc <br />book describes the system developed by to L <br />for identifying ecological systems and nati Ian <br />multiple ecological features such as major c a one <br />composition, and so on. <br />There are four ecolo; <br />forest, Laurentian m. <br />provinces, and 26 su <br />follows (Figure 10]- <br />Ecological <br />0] <br />Ecological PARTF70 <br />Section: tiffnesota <br />Sand <br />Friends of the Mississippi <br />BroaWForest <br />east l a Morainal <br />31 <br />e Field Guide to the Native <br />ce (DNR, 2005). This <br />art nt of Natural Resources <br />pV types in the state, based on <br />gin of glacial deposit, plant <br />1rairie parkland, eastern broadleaf <br />parkland), ten sections within the <br />ton Conservation Area is classified as <br />W.H. Houlton Conservation Area NRMP <br />