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Group Name: Friends of the Minnesota ValleyContact: Nelson T. FrenchContact Address: 3815 East 80th StBloomington, Minnesota 55425Contact Phone: 612-858-0706Contact Email: nelson_french@hotmail.comURL: http://wrc.coafes.umn.edu/lowermn/Activity:Watershed Alliance/CouncilDescription:The Friends of the Minnesota Valley envisions a future with a healthy Lower Minnesota River Watershed where an informed citizenry takes personal and group responsibility to ensure that natural ecological systems and human economic and social systems coexist in a fashion sustainable into the future. Since incorporation in 1982, the Friends of the Minnesota Valley has dedicated its efforts to supporting conservation of the natural resources of the Lower Minnesota River Watershed. We have done so through promoting establishment of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge and focusing public attention on community environmental awareness and personal landowner and citizen responsibility for natural resource protection. Our mission is "supporting conservation and management of the natural and cultural resources of the Lower Minnesota River Watershed, and promoting environmental awareness." We are engagoing in a new Leadership In Stewardship initiative to improve the health of the ecosystems in the Lower Minnesota River Watershed - and therefore the Minnesota River. We have been selected by the Minesota River Basin Joint Powers Board as the lead catalyst organization to bring stakeholders together to develop a common vision for the future in the Lower MInnesota River Watershed. Successes have included establishment of MN Valley NWR, appropriaiton of more than $25 million for land acquisition and construction of visitor education facility, negotiation of $26 million aiport mitigation agreement for acquisition of new NWR land and replacement of educational facilities.Number of Volunteers: 175Address: 3815 East 80th StreetBloomington, Minnesota 55425Phone: 612-858-0706Email: fmv12@hotmail.comDate Last Modified: 01/28/2003 01:11:33 PM