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The new State and Regional Parks and Trails Legacy Plan is out for citizen comment and beginning Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will conduct public meetings around the state.

Minnesotans who showed up at the public meeting in Bemidji Tuesday night to discuss the priorities for spending legacy money for parks and trails identified some of the flashpoints in the plan.

The draft  cooperative master plan for the new Lake Vermilion State Park and the Soudan Underground Mine State Park is now out for public comment .

An Outdoor Heritage Fund Stakeholder’s Forum is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 6 at the Earle Brown Center in Brooklyn Park.

Comments to the draft State and Regional Parks and Trails Legacy Plan will be accepted through Friday January 7.

Being with the same organization for 23 years usually creates many friends and much good will and that was evident at a send-off for governmental relations director Judy Erickson before Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota’s board of directors meeting last month.

A new website for the first time keeps track of where the money from the Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment is being spent.

In what appears to be a first in the long history of the Parks & Trails Council of Minnesota, the organization completed two land deals in one week, each worth slightly more than $1 million, which will benefit Minnesota parks.