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| Training Overview |
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Through the Healthy Lakes and Rivers Partnerships (HLRP) program the foundation empowers local shoreline associations to improve the quality of their lakes or rivers by helping them:
- Enhance the leadership skills of key lake/river association members.
- Provide a forum for shoreline property owners to plan for the future of their watershed.
- Obtain opportunities to network, work cooperatively, learn from one other, and advocate for healthy waters in central Minnesota
- Create visions, missions, goals, and management plans for their watershed using a template developed by the Healthy Lakes program and modeled after the State Interagency Lakes Coordinating Committee guide.
- Establish indicators to measure the success of their association’s efforts.
- Receive training, technical assistance and support for citizen-based planning and project implementation.
Program History
HLRP was initially developed in the summer of 1999 in collaboration with the Crow Wing Lakes & Rivers Alliance, Crow Wing County. HLRP was developed to help fill the gap between what state agencies are able to accomplish with regard to water quality management, and what local citizens believe should be done to protect or improve the quality of their lakes and rivers.The following summary shows the number of groups that have participated in the program within each county:
Benton - 1
Cass - 28
Crow Wing - 27
Isanti - 8
Kanabec - 5
Mille Lacs - 0
Morrison - 8
Pine - 0
Sherburne - 5
Stearns - 16
Todd - 3
Wadena - 5
Wright - 10
In addition, partnerships with the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resouces (LCMR), the McKnight Foundation, and the Northwest Minnesota Foundation have supported collaborations that have served an additional 42 lake and river groups in Aitkin, Beltrami, Douglas, Hubbard and Itasca Counties, for a total of 150 organizations served. For more detailed information about program participants and their successes take a look at the Participants & Successes page.
See our additional resources for other sources of assistance in protecting lakes and rivers. |
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