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/hGoo° -Ja Rice Creek Corridor Expansion Planning Grant Application January 28, 2000 1. Project Title: Rice Creek Corridor Expansion 2. Lead Organization: Anoka Conservation District 3. Project Lead: Chris Lord, District Manager 'i 13 4. Address: 16015 Central Ave NE, Ham Lake, MN 55304 5. Phone: 612.434.2030 Fax: 612.434.2094 email: anokacon • 6. Total Project Cost: $41,100 7. Amount of Funding Requested: $15,500 PROJECT SUMMARY 8. Project Purpose: The primary objectives of this proposal are to: 1) Classify land cover using the Minnesota Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS, 1999) for 38,643 acres of public and private lands including and between the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes, Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area, and up to the City of Blaine Corporate Limits, 2) Educate watershed district staff, local natural resource managers, local governments, private developers and local citizens on the MLCCS and its numerous uses for watershed planning, wetlands assessment, land use planning, greenway and open space planning and design, ecological restoration prioritization, and development review, 3) Acquire these data to set the stage for landscape -scale analysis of potential ecological and cultural connections between these two regionally - significant open space systems, 4) Contribute toward completion of a county -wide land cover GIS layer for Anoka County within the next two years, through collaboration with ongoing and proposed land cover classification projects, and, 5) Inventory natural communities and semi - natural areas to compliment additional biological survey work proposed for the same project area for the 2000 -2001 field seasons. Educated local managers on the location, extent, and unique characteristics of rare communities and additional high- quality natural areas discovered during this land cover classification process.