The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board permanently preserves, protects, maintains, improves, and enhances its natural resources, parkland, and recreational opportunities for current and future generations of our region including people, plants, and wildlife. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board dismantles historic inequities in the provision of park and recreation opportunities for all people to gather, celebrate, contemplate, and engage in activities that promote health, wellbeing, community, and the environment.

School forests are places where education happens...outdoors. Public and private schools can designate a nearby forest or part of their schoolground as their outdoor classroom. The goal of the program is to get more classes learning outdoors, more often. The program connects teachers with a variety of outdoor lessons that meet standards in math, reading, science, social studies, art, and P.E. The program also connects schools with local DNR foresters who advise on how to manage the land.

The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board (EQB) is a forum for leadership and coordination across Minnesota state agencies on complex, priority environmental issues. As a public-facing board, the EQB strives to engage Minnesotans and provide greater access to conversations regarding the future of our environment. The EQB's mission is to enhance Minnesota's environmental quality for current and future generations by leading interagency work to advance meaningful public engagement and facilitate informed decision-making on critical environmental issues.