Reinvest in Minnesota Overview
Minnesota CREP
Minnesota's CREP program focuses on 54 counties in southern and western Minnesota. The program is a federal, state, local partnership with the goal to enroll 60,000 acres of buffer strips, wetland restorations, and wellhead protection areas.
RIM Grassland Reserve
Easements through this project will protect current grasslands and buffering native prairie that are within wildlife habitat complexes not covered by other conservation programs. The enrollment focus is within the Prairie and Forest/Prairie Transition Ecoregions.
RIM Wild Rice Conservation Easement Program
RIM Wild Rice Conservation easements protect wild rice lakes on privately owned lands in Minnesota’s Northern Forest region. Permanent easements protect this important resource from the threat of future development.
Army Compatible Use Buffer Program
The ACUB easement program permanently protects private lands within a 3 mile radius around Camp Ripley from residential and commercial development.
Critical Shorelands: Rum River Conservation Easements
The Critical Shorelands: Rum River Conservation Easements Program protects sensitive shorelands on privately owned lands in Minnesota's Rum River watershed. This program is available in the following 10 counties: Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Sherburne.
Mississippi Headwaters Habitat Corridor Easements
This Program offers private landowners along or near the first 400 miles of the Mississippi River, or on a major tributary or headwaters lake, an opportunity to protect critical fish and wildlife habitat by permanently protecting the natural resource value of their land.
Healthy Waters Protection, Pine River
Permanent easements protect undeveloped shoreland along the Lower, Middle & Upper Pine River. The program focus is to protect water quality in the Pine River watershed, which has been identified as a priority in MN for source water protection.
RIM Groundwater (Wellhead) Protection Easements
The RIM Groundwater Easement program protects and restores areas where drinking water supply has been designated as highly vulnerable by the MN Department of Health.
Wetland Bank and Mitigation Easements
Click here for wetland banking easement program information.
(Updated March 2021)
(Updated March 2021)
(Updated on rolling basis)