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rin -Sum r 1 5 T TALK ~ 5 Continued from page 4... 7tie SL Cro/x Rlvsr and h'a WaMnhsd Responding to the Threats To respond to threats such as these, and in support of opportunities, the Voyageurs Region National Park Association, during the Last three years, has been developing a base of support, a background paper, and an action plan, toward the establishment of a St. Croix Watershed Network. Persons interested in more information about. the Network can call the St. Croix Watershed Network office directly at (612) 333-5424. Meanwhile, the Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission and the partner managing agencies on the Lower St. Croix River (the Minnesota and Wisconsin DNRs and the National Park Service) are working to implement the other 3? recommendations contained in the final report for this project. Copies of the final project report can be viewed at the new River and Watershed Stewardship Reference Library at the Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission, 619 Second Street, Hudson, Wisconsin. Copies of summary newsletters contain] ~ the 38 final recommendations and other information, a newly published Stewardship guide, a summary video, and other materials, can be obtained by contacting the Commission at (612) 436-7131 or (715) 386- 9444. 1. Robbinson, Ann, and Marks, Robbin, Recto ng the Big River. A Glean Water Act BluenrLnt for the MisstccinDi, Isaak Walton League of America and Natural Resources Defense Council, February. 1994, 53 pages. 2. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee. Fac .the Threat: An E-r`ns~ Pm Management Stratecw for the Ugner Mi~sissinni ver, December, 1993. 14 pages 3. Great River Environmental Action Team, GREAT I Main Report. pages III-4, III-5, September. 1.980. _ 4. Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission. Stewardship of the Lower St. Croix River and Its Watershed, 224 pages, February 10, 1994, Hudson., Wisconsin. Continued from page 2... SL Croix P/ann/n8 for ihs Futuro Rewriting a management. plan for the Lower St. Croix will be no easy task considering the myriad of interests involved in the river. The three managing agencies are approaching the process from a unique perspective. Beginning this year, a task force made up of all of the river's varied interests and perspectives-from cities and counties to environmental groups and development interests-will sit down with the Park Service and the two DNRs to begin crafting a new management approach to the river. Rather than drafting a plan in private and then letting public interests take shofs at it, the plan will be written in the most public of settings: a series of task force meetings that will probably take , .four years to complete. In addition to this broad level of planning, the National Park Service is also completing a more specific water resource management plan ). The WRMP, as its name implies, focuses on the water and water-dependent resources of the river corridor. While management plans.inelude and are in fact .driven by public. involvement. the WRMP is an internal National Park Service doeumtnt to guide the management of water resources in the corridor. The process has begun with the identification of significant issues facing the river's water resources and the identification of sources of data and information related to those issues. Assembling and synthesizing that. data and information is now in progress. This process will identify significant information gaps and prescribe ways to fill those gaps. Project statements will be developed to guide management. As an Continued on page 6 ».