Coordinator:
Chief: Patrick Carroll
e-mail: patrick_carroll@fws.gov or MidwestNews@fws.gov
BHW Federal
Building
1 Federal Drive
Ft. Snelling, MN 55111-4056
Phone: 612-713-5410
Fax: 612-713-5290
TTY: 1-800-877-8339 (Federal Relay)
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Ascertainment and Planning
Before a
new refuge is established, or the boundary of an existing
refuge is significantly revised, the Service completes a
detailed planning process to consider the effects of the
proposed actions. A team of biologists and planners
identify potential new lands to be acquired or preserved
in some other way.
The team
works with local communities, landowners, state agencies,
private conservation groups, and other interested parties
to carefully plan where new lands and waters should be
protected or restored for endangered species, migratory
birds or other nationally important fish and wildlife
conservation purposes.
The
Service is also required to prepare management plans for
existing refuges. These Comprehensive Conservation Plans
(CCP) detail management direction on refuges for a 15
year period. The Planning staff ensures that all planning
efforts comply with National Environmental Policy Act
requirements.
Public
involvement is an important component of all these
planning processes.
Realty Management
Once
properties are acquired, the Realty Management staff is
responsible for managing real estate records for over one
million acres of Service owned lands throughout Region 3.
The Realty
Management staff also:
- Works to
assure that counties receive revenue sharing payments
- Processes
right-of-way permits across Service owned land
- Produces cartographic
products for Service use
Land
Acquisition
The Realty
Division's staff of appraisers and realty specialists
works with landowners who have indicated an interest in
selling their property, or property interests, to the
Service. The appraisers determine fair market value and
the realty specialists make the fee-title or easement
purchases from these willing landowners. Lands are
acquired by using funds from:
The
Migratory Bird Conservation Fund (received from the
sale of Federal Duck Stamps)
The
Congressionally appropriated Land and Water
Conservation Fund
Natural
Resource Damage Assessments
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