Issues Resolutions

2024

1. Get the Lead Out of Ammunition and Fishing Tackle

2. Corps of Engineer Navigation System Dredging on the Great Lakes and Mississippi River

3. Sunset the Manufacture and Sale of Gasoline-powered Lawn & Garden Small Engines (except chainsaws) by 2036

4. Minnesota Constitutional Amendment on Environment and Natural Resources, Its Protection and Improvement

5. Minnesota Low and Moderate Income Electric Vehicle Incentive Programs

6. Climate Restoration Resolution   

2023

1. Sunset the Manufacture and Sale of Gasoline-powered Small Engines by 2035Funding for Rural Electric Co-ops to Make a Rapid Transition to Renewable Energy

   • Att 1-Emissions by Banks & McConnell

   • Att 2-SORE fact sheet

   • Att 3-Small Engine emissions 

   • Att 4-Engine emissions comparison test

   • Att 5-Lawn mower emissions-2001  

2. ClimateRes_Final 2023-01-29 

   • Att 1-ClimateRes_Draft 2022-12-20 

3. EOR CCS_Final Draft 2023-1-30 

2022

1. Funding for Rural Electric Co-ops to Make a Rapid Transition to Renewable Energy

2. Ban the Sale of New Internal Combustion Engine Automobiles in Minnesota by 2035

3. 100% Clean Energy for Electricity in Minnesota by 2040

4. Rural Minnesota Electric Vehicle Charging Study

5. Electric School Buses by 2030

6. Disposal of Dredge Material for Beach Nourishment on Minnesota Point and its Impact on Lake Superior

   • Att1_Fig.1 Map of Construction Limits and Project Area 2020 Beach Nourishment

   • Att2_No 5 - Bosman 2021 USACE Program Presented to PPCC 12 Jan 2021

   • Att3_No 6 - Lord 1978 - MN Duluth Case 76-80 docket documents 24-29

   • Att4_No 8 - Kalitowski 1985 - MPCA Comments on 1985 Grt Lks Connecting Channels and Harbors Feasibility and EIS

   • Att5_No 9 - Uhlarik 2021 - USACE_Response_to_FY20_citizen_Sed_Eval_01 April 2021

   • Att6_No 10 - Glass 2021 - Sediment Composition and Lake Loading -  3.28.2021

   • Att7_No 11 - Kuskie 2019 - MPCA 401 WQ Certification_MN Point Beach Nourishment 03-01-2019

   • Att8_No 12 - Hotz 2020 - MPCA Comments on MN PT BMPs acknowledging WQ Std exceedences

   • Att9_No 13 - USACE 2020 - Human Health Risk Assessment_Duluth MN Point _beach nourishment_23JUNE2020

   • Att10_No 14 - USACE 2021 - MNPoint_Debris_Mitigation_Cleanup_Plan_01 MAR 2021

   • Att11_No 15 - USACE 2020 - USACE 2020 MN Point Beach Nourishment Summary 11-25-20

   • Att12_Polo 2001 - USACE Section 111 Study Point Main Report

7. Protection of Native “Rough Fish”

8. Redesigning Minnesota State Highway 34

2021

1. Resolution to Preserve Minnesota’s Aquatic Ecosystems and Fisheries While Making Them Resilient to Climate Change

2. Resolution to Oppose the Indiscriminate Killing of Wildlife in the Form of Wildlife Killing Contests

3. Taking an Ecosystem Approach

4. Social Justice Consideration in Solar and Automobile EV Construction

2020

5. State Wildlife Management Areas (WMA)/State Aquatic Management Areas (AMA) Timber Sales Planning 

6. Use of Watercrafts That Create Artificially Enhanced Wakes on Minnesota's Lakes and Rivers

7. Resolution on WOW (Walk on the Wildside): A Proposal to Enhance and Support Funding for the Out-of-doors

8. Ban on USE of Neonicotinoids (neonics)

9. Support for Banning Sulfide-Ore Copper Mining on Public Lands in the Rainy River Headwaters (a.k.a., Boundary Waters watershed)

10. Support for Managing Water Flows in the Minnesota River Basin Through Increased Water Storage and Other Strategies and Practices

2019

1. Carbon Fee Dividend

2. Chronic Wasting Disease

3. Lead Fishing Tackle and Hunting Ammunition

4. Making Certain Old Resolutions Inactive

5. Oppose Seismic Exploration and Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

6. Opposing Border to Border Route Funding

7. Specific Conductance

8. State Wildlife Management Areas

2018

1. Preserving Moose, the Monarch of Minnesota's North Woods

2. Watercraft Use On The Mississippi River and Its Backwaters

2017

1. Carbon Fee & Dividend

2. Oppose Transfer of Federal Lands to the States

3. Protection of Bears Ears Wilderness and Red Rock National Monument

4. Minnesota Threatened & Endangered Species Act

5. Garlic Mustard Invasion Issues

6. Oppose Legislation that Harms the Wilderness Act

2016

1. Place a Moratorium on Sulfide-Ore Mining in Minnesota

2. Water Issues - Reduce Runoff

3. Water Issues - Store Excess Runoff

4. Collection and Disposal of Prescription Drugs

5. Support for a DNR Ban of Lead Shot on WMA's in Minnesota's Farmland Zone

6. Climate Change

7. Carbon Fee and Dividend

8. Threat to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Minnesota Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) by Special Interests
   NEPA/MEPA Resolution Background

   • NEPA/MEPA Resolution Background 

9. Support for a Minnesota Valley Basin Wide Watershed Governing Body

10. Support for a Minnesota Valley Basin Wide River Watch Program

The following resolutions were submitted by the Minnesota Division to the floor of the Izaak Walton League of America's annual meeting in July, 2016

• Moratorium on Sulfide-Ore Mining in Minnesota

• Climate Change

• Carbon Fee and Dividend

• Threat to NEPA and MEPA by Special Interests (background as separate attachment)

• To Conserve, Restore, and Promote Pollinators and their Habitats

2015

1. Pineland Conservation

2. Social Cost of Carbon 

3. The Land & Water Conservation Fund

4. Deer Stands on State Lands

5. To Conserve, Restore, and Promote Pollinators and their Habitats

6. Minnesota School Trust Lands Exchange

In 2015 the following resolutions were submitted to the floor at Izaak Walton League of America's annual meeting. For a synopsis click here.

• Boundary Waters School Trust Lands (#6 Minnesota Division)

• Duck Stamp

• Greenhouse Gas Reduction

• Kankakee Water Trail

• Land and Water Conservation Fund (#3 Minnesota Division)

• Nuclear Research

• Social Cost of Carbon (#2 Minnesota Division)

The following resolutions were passed at the Izaak Walton League of America's annual meeting.

• Boundary Waters School Trust Lands

• Duck Stamp

• National Water Trails System

• Land and Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization

• Nuclear Research

2014

1. Minnesota Sulfide Mining

2. Barbless Hooks

3. Early Teal Hunting Season

4. Sustainable Transportation

5. Minnesota State School Trust Lands

6. Recreational Uses of Scientific and Natural Areas (SNA's)

7. Regulatory Adequacy Involving Minnesota State Agencies

2013

1. Limit and Lower Pollution

2. Corporate Personhood and the Environment

3. Minnesota Frac Sand Mining

4. Firearms Control (Resolutions 4-6)

7. St. Croix Mega Bridge

8. Minnesota State School Trust Lands

9. To Improve Water Quality and Habitat in the Upper Mississippi River and its Watershed
   Background 1- Review of Minnesota and Wisconsin regulations
   Background 2-Asian Carp Action Plan

10. Oil & Gas

2012

2. Fossil Fuel Fee and Dividend

3. Corporate Personhood and the Environment

4. To Establish Regulation of Silica Sand Mining

5. Yellowstone Cattle Buffer

6. Minnesota Wolf Hunting Season

2011

1. Best Farming Practices

2. Roadside Management

4. Lead Ammunition repealed and superseded by 2019 resolution

5. Minnesota Division Izaak Walton League of America and Regulatory Principles

6. Streamlining Public Access to Private Land

7. No Net Gain - Public Lands

2010

1. Sustainable Forestry Investment Act

3. Coal Fueled/Gasification Plants & Climate Change

5. Oppose the Sale of National Forests in Minnesota for Sulphide Strip Mining

6. Invasive Species and the Mississippi River Gorge in the Twin Cities

7. Open Lake Dumping

8. Ruffed Grouse & Off Road Vehicles

9. Stop Asian Carp from Reaching Lake Michigan

10. A Tool to Preserve & Enhance Our Natural Heritage

List of Historic Resolutions (1970-2016)