 22 April, 2024
Happy Earth Day
Earth Day is a great day to share some learning about Minnesota’s watersheds! At the Minnesota DNR, we collect and analyze a lot of environmental data about our lands and waters. One big challenge is to deliver all that data as useful information for a range of audiences.
Do you need to share a great resource with your colleagues or communities on Earth Day? Check out the WHAF online maps below. You can use these four examples to kickstart your own exploration; or create an example of your own. Change locations and hit 'share' to send an email with a link to a map for your area of interest.
Want an easy way to explain what is upstream of your town, lake, or farm?
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Open map below to see the upstream area for Morris, Pomme de Terre River Watershed.
- Move the map to your location of interest.
- Click!
- Now the mask shows the upstream watershed boundary for your location.
- Open the Set Scale panel to find other boundaries to explore and share.
Need to share your water quality concerns?
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Open map below to show impaired water quality upstream of Melrose, Sauk River Watershed.
- Open the Legend to understand the symbols.
- Open Add Data and filter for impairments to find data by impairment type.
- Turn the different impairment types on and off to see the patterns.
- Click a new location to explore impaired waters for your area of interest.
Want to share the watershed health score that compares altered and unaltered streams?
- The score is the percent of remaining natural stream miles in each catchment.
- Open the Add Data panel to view the streamlines that generate this score.
- Open the Ecological Health Scores panel to see the whole suite of scores you can explore.
Need to explore the health of your favorite lake?
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Open this Link to pick a watershed or a county to compare a list of lakes; this example is the Miss. River – Brainerd watershed.
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Open this link to use the WHAF for Lakes to select a lake by name; this example is Hanks Lake.
- Use the tabs at the top to see details about the health scores for each lake and suggested stewardship actions.
Did you make a map you want to share? All you have to do is hit that 'share' button and you can email a map to get those conversations started. Be an Earth Day Champion and share the learning!
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