ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is providing a timeline for its production of maps for the state's new law requiring vegetative buffers around bodies of water. "We understand ...

ST. PAUL - Changes in Minnesota's year-old law requiring vegetative buffers received approval of a Senate committee Wednesday. Over objections of environmental groups, a Senate agriculture committee ...

Wetland buffer zones and naturally vegetated buffer strips may expand if two articles proposed at the annual town meeting in Mashpee are approved — and future construction projects could be affected.

REDWSOOD FALL - Minnesota’s new buffer law will move up the planting of perennial vegetative buffers along public ditches, and add buffers along some natural waters where they do not currently exist.

ST. PAUL - Gary Haugen has lost his attempt to overturn a decades-old decision that forces him to install vegetative buffers. The lawsuit, recently decided by the Minnesota Appeals Court, technically ...

BRAINERD — Crow Wing County commissioners heard options to change vegetation standards so all lakes would be the same. Lake classifications are general recreational, recreational development and ...

Minnesota farmers may have gotten a break on school referendum levies this year, but they didn't get long-sought tax relief on land given up for vegetative buffer strips this session. Now, lawmakers ...

BROOKLYN PARK - Governor Mark Dayton will be asking the Legislature to require a 50-foot vegetative buffer along the state’s waterways and wetlands, and to give the Department of Natural Resources the ...