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title: "Minneapolis Natural Areas Plan: Assessment and Management Recommendations"
slug: "minneapolis-natural-areas-plan"
updated: 2022-05-26T18:43:49Z
published: 2022-05-26T18:43:49Z
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Minneapolis Natural Areas Plan: Assessment and Management Recommendations

The city of Minneapolis created the Natural Areas Plan to describe a holistic approach to managing city's the natural areas through system-wide planning and administration to secure and deploy funds, staff, and equipment.

### In a nutshell, this resource offers:

- Principles and concepts for conservation planning and long-term management of urban natural areas.
- Methods for inventory and assessment of natural areas.
- Management recommendations and management briefs for natural areas, based on findings of assessments.
- Cost estimates to improve ecological conditions in natural areas.

### How to use this resource:

- As an example of carrying out a holistic assessment of ecological conditions, funding, and staffing of an urban natural areas management program.
- As a format for conducting assessments and creating management briefs to guide short-term implementation actions.
- As an example of a long-term plan for urban natural areas.

**Author:**Kim Alan Chapman, Douglas Mensing, Ben Staehlin, Eoghan O'Neill, Sean Jergens, Dan Tinklenberg

**Date published:**December 2021

**P****oint of contact:**James Shaffer, Natural Resources Supervisor, Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, [JShaffer@minneapolisparks.org](mailto:JShaffer@minneapolisparks.org).

**Citation:**Chapman, K. A., Mensing, D., Staehlin, B., O'Neill, E., Jergens, S., Tinklenberg, D. 2021. *Natural Areas Plan - Phase II: Assessment and Management Recommendations: Condensed Version: Executive Summary, Management Briefs and Maps.* Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board, Minneapolis, MN.

[Resource is available online here](https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/MPRB-Natural-Areas-Plan_Phase2_FINAL.pdf).

[PDF document](https://cdn.document360.io/18a9acd7-787d-47fa-9b54-01592bb1d507/Images/Documentation/MPRB-Natural-Areas-Plan-Condensed-Version-Phase-II.pdf)

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