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Dakota SWCD Completes Wetland and Waterway Inventory and Assessment 
The Wetland Inventory Project for the Vermillion and North Cannon River Watershed began in 2005 through a MEP grant from the Met Council and in conjunction with a Wetland and Watercourse Inventory and Assessment Project in the Vermillion River Watershed.
The original goals of this project included inventorying existing and historical wetlands, convening a task force to develop watershed-based wetland assessment methods, assessing existing wetlands for functions and values, and drafting model ordinances for cities and townships.
SWCD Viewer now available
The Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) has collaborated with the Dakota County Office of GIS to produce an online mapping feature focusing on conservation-related information
and historical aerial photography. This tool will allow the public to pan and zoom across the County while viewing commonly requested data such as land cover, soils, wetlands and aerial photography
from 1937 to the present. Any landowner can use this tool to determine what type of soils occur on their property, whether wetlands may be present, or what their land may have looked like 60 years
ago. From the SWCD website, citizens can print this information and maps from home.
Capitalizing on this technology will reduce office workload and increase efficiency by allowing interested individuals to access this information from their computer rather than traveling to the SWCD
office to view maps and photographs.
Begin SWCD Viewer
NRCS Makes Soil Survey Available Online
The official Dakota County Soil Survey is now available online from the Natural Resource Conservation Service, Web Soil Survey.
This interactive feature provides electronic access to the most current full soil survey report content providing users quick delivery of text, tables, and maps.
Dakota SWCD partners with Minnesota DNR to produce The Natural Resource Guide CD
