Facilities and Lands
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Northeast Sands Ecological Landscape
This planning effort covers the Northeast Sands Ecological Landscape and includes wild rivers, state natural areas, and wildlife and fishery areas. The Northeast Sands encompasses portions of Florence, Marinette, Oconto and Menominee counties and a…
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Northern Lake Michigan Coastal Ecological Landscape
This regional plan covers the Northern Lake Michigan Coastal Ecological Landscape and includes wildlife areas, state parks, natural areas, state forests and fishery areas within five counties: Door, Oconto, Marinette, Waupaca and Shawano. These…
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Northern Highland – American Legion State Forest
The Northern Highland – American Legion State Forest Master Plan was approved by the Natural Resources Board in 2005 and amended in 2017 to meet the public’s changing recreation needs. The 2017 Amendment allowed for the planning of 202 miles of…
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Common Elements
There are many elements or components of master plans that are common to the majority of DNR properties, as well as standard practices for habitat and property management that apply broadly to the majority of situations addressed or described in…
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Central Sand Plains Ecological Landscape
The Central Sand Plains Ecological Landscape encompasses portions of Adams, Clark, Columbia, Eau Claire, Jackson, Juneau, Marathon, Marquette, Monroe, Portage, Sauk, Waushara and Wood counties. The region includes many notable ecological resources…
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Blue Mound State Park
In June 2018, the Natural Resources Board approved the department’s recommendation to develop a plan revision to the Blue Mound State Park master plan. The result of this process will be a master plan that replaces the existing 1984 master plan [PDF…
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Motorized road access planning
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources owns and maintains thousands of miles of roads on department property. The master planning process is the mechanism for the public and partners to engage in discussions about future use and development…
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Planning Resources
The following resources are frequently used when developing property master plans. Ecological Landscapes book The Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin website contains the various chapters of the Ecological Landscapes of Wisconsin book, which…
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Property Planning Viewer
The Property Planning Viewer is an interactive web mapping application containing map layers important to the planning process. The viewer can be used to gain a general overview of a region or to find detailed information about a specific DNR…
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Monitoring reports
Master plans set goals and objectives describing desired future conditions for each property. An ongoing monitoring program is essential if managers are to know whether the plan is achieving the desired results. A monitoring program provides…