BALMM, The Basin Alliance for the Lower Mississippi in Minnesota
The Basin Alliance for the Lower Mississippi in Minnesota (BALMM) is a locally-led alliance of land and water resource agencies formed to coordinate efforts to protect and improve water quality in the Lower Mississippi River Basin in Minnesota.
http://www.umbsn.org/news/balmm_updates.shtml

The Minnesota River Basin Joint Powers Board
The Minnesota River Basin Joint Powers Board is a group of 37 counties with land that drains into the Minnesota River, and is dedicated to coordinating the clean up of the Minnesota River basin. Contact: Aaron Colson, Executive Director, acolson@co.carver.mn.us.
http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/jpb/mrbjpb.html

Minnesota River Basin: Management Framework Watershed Organizations and Projects
Improving the Minnesota River involves the efforts of people like yourself. Many people are involved with organizations or projects. Dozens of these organizations exist in the Minnesota River Basin. If you would like more information on any of the groups listed below, please contact them. The activities of each are described along with addresses phone numbers and people to contact. This is an interactive list which should change along with the activities in the basin. If you would like to add information, make a correction, or add an organization to the list below, please contact Larry Gunderson at 651-297-3825
http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/mnriver/index.html

Minnesota River Basin Data Center
This site contains information about the Minnesota River Basin and its major watersheds including maps, GIS data, data inventories, watershed projects and publications. The Data Center is located at the Water Resources Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Contact: Robert Finley, robert.finley@mnsu.edu
http://mrbdc.mnsu.edu

Friends of the Mississippi River
Less than four percent of the Twin Cities' native landscape remains, and much of it lies along the Mississippi River. Birds and mammals depend on natural areas along the river for habitat and migration.
http://www.fmr.org/

Basin and major watershed planning
MPCA is developing a basin and major watershed approach for planning and implementing its programs and activities. The Minnesota River basin is subdivided into 12 major watersheds, which are distinct hydrologic units. The landscape, climate, and agronomic characteristics of each watershed vary considerably.
http://www.soils.agri.umn.edu/research/mn-river/doc/plannew.html

Minnesota River Watershed Institute
The Minnesota River Watershed Institute provides training opportunities to individuals and groups involved with watershed based water quality improvement and protection. This project involves cooperation from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota River Basin Joint Powers Board and partners consisting of various locally led watershed organizations in the Minnesota River Basin.
Ed note: new link available in May 2002.

The River Friendly Farmer Program
Giving public recognition to farmers who are doing their part to protect and enhance the rivers in Minnesota.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/specializations/environment/HD1002.html

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Lakes, Rivers and Streams web-page
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/water.html

Great River Greening
Great River Greening is a nonprofit, community-based organization that restores and maintains urban natural resources throughout the Twin Cities river valleys in partnership with public and private landowners and citizen volunteers.
http://www.greatrivergreening.org/

Metropolitan Surface Water Management Program
Metropolitan Groundwater Management Program Program purpose: To protect water resources through the adoption and implementation of local water management plans based on local priorities. Program history: The Comprehensive Local Water Planning Program began in 1987 through a pilot program funded by the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCMR).
http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/watermgmt/metroareasurface.html

Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR)
The Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources is a state agency that assists local governments to manage and conserve their irreplaceable water and soil resources. The Board of Water and Soil Resources accomplishes this mission by providing financial, technical, and administrative help to local governments throughout the state.
http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/index.html

Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM)
BWSR (Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources) administers the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Reserve Program. Its purpose: To protect water quality, reduce soil erosion, and enhance fish and wildlife habitat by acquiring conservation easements on environmentally sensitive lands. The RIM Reserve Program is not truly a grant program in the same sense that many other BWSR programs are grant programs.
http://www.bwsr.state.mn.us/grantscostshare/rimservices.html