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This chapter is a good overview on the management of natural areas, and can serve as a checklist for important components of Imanagement plans (e.g., avoid fragmentation, maximize interior environments, control exotic species, promote natural disturbance regimes, etc.) The plan puts specific restoration and management recommendations into a landscape context, with information on geology and soils, pre- European settlement vegetation and wildlife, land use history, and present -day vegetation and wildlife. Four distinct restoration and management projects are described, although more detailed plans for implementation will be required. Hannah Dunevitz (651) 772 -7570 Hannah Dunevitz (651) 772 -7570 z Q z Allmann, L. 1997. Natural Areas: Protecting a Vital Community Asset. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program, Saint Paul. (pp. 77 -89) Management Recommendations for the Koch Petroleum Group Property within the Pine Bend Bluffs Natural Area. 2000. Department of Natural Resources (107 pp.) 0 as 0 it z The plan divides the city into 9 resource management units for which separate goals and strategies are presented. High, medium and low quality natural communities are identified within each management unit, and MCBS natural communities and rare species sites are highlighted. A technical appendix provides more detail about native plant communities, quality and rarity rankings, techniques for restoration and management, and land use planning/protection tools. The report is a comprehensive guide to the natural communities of Cottage Grove, and does an especially nice job of describing their location, quality, and management. The goal of the inventory was to protect and enhance the health of natural areas. It gives some fairly detailed species lists for each of the natural communities inventoried, and assigns a local value, based on the city's comprehensive plan, the ability to link other features in the landscape, etc. Beth Nixon, SEH, Inc., (651) 490 -2054 Kim Lindquist, City of Cottage Grove, (651) 458- 2800; Tony DeMars, Emmons & Olivier Resources, (651) 770 -8448 z 6 E Cottage Grove, MN City of Burnsville Natural Resources Management Plan. 1998. (Prepared by SEH, Inc.). City of Cottage Grove. 1998. Final Report: Natural Resources Inventory. (Prepared by A. R. DeMars formerly of Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik, & Associates. Currently with Emmons & Olivier Resources) *. Useful Natural Resource Documents/Language for Local Government: Examples, Checklists, and Guidelines - compiled by MnDNR - draft 5/5/00