Darby Nelson, a member of the Lessard Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, says two new bills in the Legislature would capture money from the Outdoor Heritage Fund for unrelated environmental purposes.  It’s highly questionable whether this would be consistent with the voter-approved Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment. More here.

John Tuma’s Capitol Update – February 26, 2010

“There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace.  The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten.  It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways in ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfaction.  When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.”

-Sigurd F. Olson, The Singing Wilderness, 1956

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John Tuma’s Capitol Update

As the legislative session opens this week, legislators and Gov. Pawlenty have taken some positive early steps for the environment with the capital investments bill.  Hopefully they will take some lessons from the leadership of former Governor Floyd B. Olson in 1933.

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John Tuma’s Capitol Update – the Pre-Session Version

“This place is now feeling the pressure of hard times… they have not found bottom yet…they have recently voted to loan the credit of the State for $5,000,000 & have thus hung a millstone around their neck, which they will doubtless have to bear for [m]any years to come…”

John P. Bardwell
Agent of the American Missionary Association
From St. Paul on May 7, 1858*

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Darby Nelson of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council is explaining this year’s Council recommendations to the Legislature for fish, game and wildlife habitat protection. The Council is responsible for selecting and recommending proposals submitted by government agencies and nonprofit organizations for funding from the Legacy Amendment’s Outdoor Heritage Fund. This week, he covers recommendations for the Forest/Prairie Transition region and Southeast Forests.

You can find Darby’s analysis here.

Conservation Minnesota’s Darby Nelson is continuing his series of posts on recommended funding for fish, game and wildlife habitat grants from the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council. Darby is in the know as a member of the Council.  His latest post is on recommendations for the Metro Urbanizing Region.  Good stuff.

The complete list of the Council’s draft recommendations is here.

Last week, the Lessard Sams Outdoor Heritage Council made tentative selections of over $56 million in fish, game and wildlife habitat restoration and conservation projects from Legacy Amendment funding. Darby Nelson, a member of the Council, reports on the process of sifting through applications and begins a series of reports, by region of the state, of what work would be funded if the recommendations are accepted by the Legislature next year.

Darby Nelson, a member of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council and board president of Conservation Minnesota, reports on the Council’s Tuesday meeting. The Council tentatively approved $56 million in funding recommendations for fishing, hunting and wildlife habitat projects. It wasn’t easy, though; Darby says the 22 recommended projects requested more than $100 million, so almost all were scaled back. The Council makes recommendations to the Legislature on Legacy Amendment funding for outdoor heritage projects.

Over at Conservation Minnesota, we’ve been trying to track where the nearly $300 million in new money from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment is going over the next two years. Although our work is not yet done, we have posted overall water spending numbers by agency here and detailed descriptions of money going to the Minnesota Department of Health (here and here), Department of Agriculture, Board of Water and Soil Resources and the Metro Council (for water supply planning). We also looked into the long-range water plan being developed by the University of Minnesota.

The money will fund badly-needed water cleanup, important habitat projects and critical parks and trails services. But making sure all the money is spent well and transparently is the job of citizen watchdogs and constituencies. We are interested in whether the material gathered to date raises any questions, concerns, or skepticism.

The Minnesota House and Senate are now in conference over first-time appropriations from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment. With just five days left before the scheduled session end and the state budget far from resolved, overnight changes to all funding bills are possible. That raises the possibility that more of the Legacy money could end up substituting for steep cuts in existing conservation programs, rather than funding new and overdue initiatives as the Amendment promised.

This morning Conservation Minnesota asked Minnesotans to contact the Legislature and Governor about this issue and especially to insure water cleanup funding is protected.

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