Natural Heritage Information System (MN)
Minnesota rare plant, animal and native plant community records, including bald eagle nest and roost information requests for environmental review. Explains the Minnesota Conservation Explorer and how to request natural heritage data for a project site. Inventories are incomplete and detailed locations of sensitive species may be restricted.
Natural Heritage Information System
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What you can look up here
- Land coverForest, crops, wetland, developed, or open, from satellite data.
- Environmental conditionsContamination, tanks, spills, and permitted facilities near a site.
About this resource
- Provided by
- Minnesota DNR (official)
- Covers
- All of Minnesota
- Link status
- Opened normally at the last check
- Link checked
- Oct 12, 2026
- Web address
- https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/nhnrp/nhis.html
Scope and data-access limits checked 2026-09-12 on the official NHIS page. DNR bald eagle nest metadata identifies the NHIS Observation Database among its sources: https://mnatlas.org/metadata/bald_eagle_nest_locations.html. Its old Geospatial Commons download link redirects to the general portal, so use the NHIS program to request the appropriate data.
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