NORTH DAKOTA NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST

The North Dakota Natural Resources Trust (Trust), originally the North Dakota Wetlands Trust, was born in 1986 out of a conflict over how to address the Garrison Diversion Project's adverse impacts on the state's wetlands. Under the terms of the 1986 Reformulation Act (P.L. 99-294), the United States Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) provided North Dakota the initial $12 million toward initiation of the North Dakota Wetlands Trust. The state of North Dakota contributed an amount equaling ten percent of the federal contribution ($1.2 million), equally split between the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, the State Water Commission and the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District.

Primary location: Bismarck United States