Minnesota Forestlands

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Minnesota Forestlands
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A Simple Paradigm for Landscape

• Constant evaluation
• What goods to produce and what services to
  provide
• How to produce those goods and provide those
  services
• Outcome(s) of those evaluations leads to dynamism
  in the landscape

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Land Use in Minnesota

• Private land 39.4 million 77
• Public land     11.8 million 23
• Federal   3.4 million   7
• State      8.4 million  16

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Minnesota Plant Cover
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Forestry

• Minnesota Forest Facts (North Central
  Experimental Station)
• Forest Industry Look to Finland (MPR)
• Talking Points from Minnesota Forest Industries
  (Sierra Club)
• Forest Industry in the United States (Forestry
  USA)
• Minnesota Forest Profile (US Forest Service)
• Minnesota Timber Industry, 1997 (North Central
  Forest Experimental Station)
• Minnesota Generic Environmental Impact Statement
  (Minnesota Forestry Council)
• Forestry (Board of Water and Soil Resources)

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Stakeholders - United States

• Forest Service
• Chippewa National Forest
• Superior National Forest
• Northern Research Station
• Forest Stewardship Program

• The Boundary Waters 25 years later (Minnesota
  Public Radio)
• History of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
  Wilderness (USDA)
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area A Contentious History
  (MPR)
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1978
• BWCA regulations
• Court Cases
• Law review articles
• BWCA Chronology (Minnesota House)

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Stakeholders - Minnesota

• Department of Natural Resources
• Division of Forestry
• provides long-term, sustainable yields of forest
  resources from state forestlands
• improves the health and productivity of other
  public and private forest ands and community
  forestlands
• protects life, property, and natural resources
  from wildfires
• promotes the conservation, enjoyment, and use of
  Minnesota's forestlands
• State Forests
• Minnesota Demonstration Forest (DNR)
• State Statutes Forests
• State Regulations DNR
• State Forest Rules

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• Minnesota Forest Industries
• Minnesota Forest Resources Council
• Private Forested Landowners
• Nonprofits
• Forest Stewardship Council
• 319,000 Acres of Minnesota Forestland Owned By
  Potlatch Corporation Achieves FSC Certification
• Consumers

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• Potlatch - a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
  with approximately 1.6 million acres of
  forestland in Arkansas, Idaho, Minnesota and
  Wisconsin.
• provides returns to stockholders through
  long-term stewardship of its forest resources
• conducts a land sales and development business
  and operates wood products manufacturing
  facilities through its taxable REIT subsidiary
• Potlatch Land Lumber operate manufacturing
  facilities in Bemidji, MN
• Potlatch business news (SmartBrief)
• Potlatch history (FundingUniverse)
• Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) -- US Certifies
  Potlatch's 319,000 Acres of Minnesota Forestland
  (Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire)

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Minnesota State Forest
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Industrial Classification

• Division E - Manufacturing Industries
• Major Group 24 - Lumber and Wood Products, Except
  Furniture
• Major Group 25 - Wood Industries
• Major Group 26 - Furniture and Fixture Industries
  
• Major Group 27 - Paper and Allied Products
  Industries
• Types of paper made in Wisconsin
• Major Group 28 - Printing, Publishing and Allied
  Industries
• Division F - Construction Industries
• Major Group 40 - Building, Developing and General
  Contracting Industries

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Forest Companies

• Boise Cascade, LLC
• Hedstrom Lumber Co. Inc.
• International Paper
• Louisiana Pacific
• Potlatch Corporation
• Sappi Fine Paper North America
• Stora Enso North America-Duluth Mill
• Trus Joist, A Weyerhaeuser Business 
• UPM, Blandin Paper Mill
• American Forest and Paper Association

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Trade Associations

• Minnesota Forest Industries
• Forest Industry's Council on Taxation
• American Forest and Paper Association
• Forest Products and Forestry Related
  Associations, Commissions, Councils, Federations,
  and Societies (Steve Shook, University of Idaho.)
  
• Forest Products Society
• National Association of State Foresters
• Paper Industry Page (Jeff Lindsay)

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State Private Forestry

• The Principal Laws Relating to USDA Forest
  Service State and Private Forestry Programs
• USDA Forest Service Cooperative Forestry 
  provides technical and financial assistance to
  help other governments and private landowners
  care for forests and, in doing so, sustain 
  communities
• What America's Federal and State Governments want
  from Private Forests (Regional Institute)

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Forest Protection

• American Forests
• Defend the Forests (WildLaw and the National
  Forest Protection Alliance)
• Forests Forever
• Heritage Forests Campaign
• Minnesota Forest Legacy Program (DNR)
• Minnesota Forests for the Future Fact Sheet (DNR)
• Federal Funds for Brainerd Lakes Protection
  (Trust for Public Land)
• Access to MN Working Forest Land Protected (Trust
  for Public Land)
• Federal, state, and local officials celebrate
  forest conservation efforts (Nature Conservancy)

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Mining

• Statistics of US businesses. 2001. Mining
  Minnesota (US Census Bureau)
• US Steel tariffs and the Iron Range (State
  Senator Yvonne Prettner Solon 2003)
• Taconite (Minnesota Statutes)
• Taconite (Minnesota Historical Society)
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources,
  Division of Lands and Minerals
• Geology Education (DNR)
• Minerals Publications
• Iron Range Resources

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• Mineral Lands (Minnesota Statutes)
• Taxing Severed Minerals (Minnesota Statutes)
• Taxing Severed Minerals (Minnesota Statutes)
• Iron Ore Tax (Minnesota Statutes)
• Mineral Taxes (Department of Revenue)
• Mining Study (Minnesota Taxpayers Association)
• 2007 Tax Guide revised

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Minnesota Iron Mining

• Tied to steel tracks (Federal Reserve Bank of
  Minneapolis)
• Minnesota pilot plant
• Iron mining 2002 (MPR)
• Surprise revival for iron mines of Minnesota
  (Christian Science Monitor)
• Minnesota Mining non-ferrous mining efforts
• Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
• LTV Steel
• Hibbing Taconite Company
• Ispat Inland Inc.

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Taconite Overview
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Reserve Mining Company

• Northshore Mining Company
• The legacy of the Reserve Mining case (MPR)
• Miles Lord calls for a halt to taconite projects
  (MPR)