What is the purpose of the Midwest Natural Resources Group?
The purpose of the MNRG is to seek opportunities for collaboration and communication by: • Sharing best agency practices and identifying common issues, coordinating actions, resolving conflicts, and enhancing the effectiveness of existing funded natural resource efforts being undertaken; • Exploring and committing to new opportunities for cooperation, collaboration and action at the regional and local scales; • Promoting the maximum efficient use of agency resources within existing systems while not creating new levels of bureaucracy; • Improving agencies’ ability to achieve their strategic plans; • Reporting cooperative accomplishments in order to promote greater understanding and awareness of the high environmental and socio-economic values and needs of the region’s natural resources; • Garnering Federal focus and fiscal support toward the enhancement of the resources; and • Providing enhanced accountability to the public and better utilization of limited resources to reap maximum be
