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Watershed Health Assessment for Lakes Scores [Minnesota]

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Watershed Health Assessment for Lakes Scores [Minnesota]
Description
These data include data to support evaluations of lake health across Minnesota. Healthy lakes are near to their natural state and are impacted by factors that occur both within a lake and surrounding near shore areas as well as within the watershed that drains to a lake (or lakeshed). Lake health scores include multiple components that together characterize lake conditions including water quality, biology, hydrology, geomorphology, and connectivity. Additional data presented here provide basic information about a lake's characteristics and location as well as metrics used to derive lake health scores. The lake health scores and additional data can also be accessed through a web application; learn more about the Watershed Health Assessment Framework for Lakes at: https://arcgis.dnr.state.mn.us/ewr/whaflakes/, To support planning, natural resource management, research and other resource protection-related activities through the delivery of consistent, repeatable, comprehensive, and relevant metrics and health scores. , Time Period of Content date indicates the date that changes were last made to this dataset. Development of indices is ongoing. Every effort is made to use the most current data available, the exact date will vary from one index score to another.
Creator
Minnesota. Department of Natural Resources
Publisher
Minnesota Geospatial Commons
Temporal Coverage
2023-05-18
Rights
none
Access Rights
Public
Format
Files
Language
English
Date Added
March 29, 2023
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from the Minnesota Geospatial Commons on 2025-08-26.

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    Minnesota. Department of Natural Resources (n.d.). Watershed Health Assessment for Lakes Scores [Minnesota]. Minnesota Geospatial Commons. https://gisdata.mn.gov/dataset/4c5e8800-aae7-4999-8397-1ccd67b59de8 (dataset)
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