Thank you to all woodland owners who signed up to help expand forest inventory!
We're working through the next steps to collect and process the forest inventory data. Learn more about how woodland owners are helping expand Minnesota’s forest inventory database.
About the Resource Assessment Program
The Resource Assessment program (RAP) supports DNR goals by providing inventory, monitoring, and data analysis products and services to the Minnesota government, collaborators, and the public to help them manage, conserve, and sustain natural resources.
Services and data products available
RAP provides high-quality data and information for our partners and customers, including public agencies, municipalities, tribal nations, private industry, non-profit organizations, and private landowners. Our services include fieldwork, aerial photography, mapping, reports and recommendations, spatial data analyses, and lidar processing and derived product creation. Additional examples of project and program involvement include:
- Forest inventory (e.g., fieldwork, modeling)
- Fall color and supplemental aerial photography
- Cartographic mapping (e.g., State Forest Maps)
- Forest Resources Reports and State Forest Action Plan
- Forest management guideline monitoring and forest canopy change detection
- Wetland inventories, lake inventories, and status and trends monitoring
- Wildfire risk assessment and FIREWISE
Please use our contact information below to find out more about our services.
In the news and upcoming events
We keep growing! Email Resource Assessment or check out the Minnesota Careers webpage for job opportunities.
Check out this WCCO News Story about how we use lidar-derived information to enhance and update our forest inventory!
For more information:
- Dennis Kepler, Resource Assessment Supervisor
- Jason Langenecker, Assistant Resource Assessment Supervisor for Field Services
- Lucas Spaete, Assistant Resource Assessment Supervisor for Geospatial Services
- Ram Deo, Forest Biometrician, Research Scientist
- Keb Guralski, Forest Inventory Research Scientist
- Chris Bergquist, Forest Inventory Program Coordinator
- Jennifer Corcoran, Remote Sensing Program Consultant
- Lila Westreich, Guideline Monitoring Program Consultant
- General questions: Resource Assessment
- Questions about Forest Inventory or Field Procedures: MN Forest Inventory
- Questions about the Minnesota Lidar Plan: LidarHUB