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• 9) Actively work with the Governor's office and other state agencies to align agency goals, policies, and programs to promote smart growth. 10) Obtain seats and play a leadership role on key boards and working groups addressing smart growth to insure that natural resource concerns are addressed (e.g., Transportation Advisory Board, Environmental Quality Board (EQB), EQB's Urban Development GEIS Scoping Group, MNDOT's Interregional Corridor Study Steering Committee, Minnesota Planning's State Development Strategy Steering Committee, the Governor's Interagency Smart Growth Work Group, Minnesota Smart Growth Network). 11) Via the Commissioner and other DNR leadership, proactively demonstrate to other state agencies the fundamental role played by the DNR in smart growth, focusing on what the DNR can bring to the table that benefits other agencies' and collaborative efforts. 12) Work with other local, regional, and state agencies and organizations to design a long -term, comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system so that the success of the Govemor's Smart Growth Initiative can be measured. Within the context of this broader effort, develop a monitoring and evaluation system for DNR efforts related to smart growth. 13) Work with other agencies and organizations to assess the adequacy of existing data bases to provide indicators that can measure the status of landscapes and ecological conditions. Strategy 3: Provide Communities with Effective TooLs for Smart Growth 14) Identify key elements and tools needed for smart growth (e.g., integrated GIS mapping of natural resource information). Accelerate existing DNR programs and projects that are already working to provide these key elements. 15) Increase the accessibility and useability of natural resource information to local units of government, businesses, landowners, non - governmental organizations, and other state agencies, and provide training on how to effectively access and use this information in local land use decision - making. 16) Develop a set of ecological principles and guidelines for land use management, such as those developed by the Ecological Society of America (Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the Use of Land, 1999), to help guide DNR' s smart growth initiative. The guidelines would include elements such as examining impacts of local decisions in a regional context and retaining large contiguous or connected areas that contain critical habitats. 17) Redirect efforts of selected DNR area or region staff to place more emphasis on developing and maintaining partnerships with and providing technical services to local governments and communities, including businesses, especially in major growth areas. These staff, who would be 4