Hawk Creek Middle Minnesota One Watershed, One Plan

The Goal of the Hawk Creek Middle Minnesota One Watershed, One Plan is to identify and prioritize the specific actions needed to restore and protect the natural resources in the watershed. At the end of 10-years, Planning Partners expect to see improvements in water quality and the protection of high quality resources for future generations.

To accomplish this goal, we need to be familiar with the resources and the pressures they are facing.

Take a tour of the watershed by scrolling through this Story Map so you can better understand the landscape, the resource concerns and how land use decisions are affecting our surface waters and groundwater.

What are the land use changes that are impacting the resources in the watershed? This section explains the primary “stressors” that need to be addressed to protect the high quality resources and improve the resources which aren’t meeting state water quality standards (impaired resources).