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Utilization And Land Cover Examined In Two Blue Earth County Streams, Mark Gamm, Robert James Childs

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Examining soil mapping units of the United States Agriculture department's Soil Conservation Service for comparison with land usage In the Blue Earth River valley, this study found that seven of 56 units in the valley accounted for 76.5 percent of the study terrain. Agricultural use or non-use of the land units matched established . designations.

The Le Sueur River flows for about 40 miles within Blue Earth county of south ·central Minnesota. Land cover in the valley, as determined by stereoscopic examination of aerial photographs, shows forest on 65 percent, agriculture on 22 percent, and other cover on 13 percent …

Soil Quality And Agricultural Zoning: An Examination Of Conflicts, Darrell Napton

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The most common method used by local governments, to prevent conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses is zoning. An identification of high quality soils may be the most crucial stage in the development of agricultural zoning ordinances. Common soil quality classifications are not adequate in this identification, largely because they do not take local conditions into account. When soil information is used to design zoning ordinances that can withstand litigation, several additional legal criteria must be fulfilled. Four Minnesota county zoning ordinances were examined to determine if soil quality was used as a zoning criterion. Only one of the counties …

Cemeteries Of South Central Minnesota, James Pyle

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Features of 351 cemeteries in south central Minnesota are described as pervasive, visible points of the cultural landscape. The preferred hilltop location and regular layout and design reflect values and attitudes of early settlers, whose history can be traced through analysis of tombstones. Alternative uses of cemetery land are considered hypothetically, although no changes in land use are anticipated.