HF55 Summary

• Modified stream easement acquisition payment formula to use agricultural market value, rural vacant market value, and managed forest market value instead of total farm market value and timberlands value, with flexibility for Department of Revenue classification changes.

• Renamed McCarthy Beach Memorial State Park to McCarthy Beach State Park and expanded its boundaries to include Itasca County.

• Added land parcels to four state parks (Forestville Mystery Cave, Judge C.R. Magney, Split Rock Lighthouse, and Tettegouche) and deleted land parcels from six state parks (Afton, Crow Wing, Frontenac, Hayes Lake, McCarthy Beach, and Maplewood).

• Added Section 16 of Township 135 North, Range 32 West in Cass County to Lyons State Forest and authorized commissioners to acquire adjacent land for state forests through legislation.

• Authorized multiple public and private sales of surplus and tax-forfeited state land across 15+ Minnesota counties with specific parcels identified; allowed exceptions for riparian land exchanges in Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and sales below appraised value when serving public purposes like wetland mitigation and educational forest management.