What is Sustainable Land Management' or

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What is Sustainable Land Management?. or

• Do you want to live anywhere around Lake
  Minnetonka in 20 years?

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Sustainability

• The effort to improve present living standards
  without closing options for future generations--

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What are the principles of sustainable land
management?W.G. Sombroek, Framework for Land
Evaluation,(FOA), Rome, Italy, 1976

• Land is the basis for many life support systems
  food, timber etc.
• Land is the basis of terrestrial biodiversity
  providing homes for plants and animals
• Land filters and buffers waste and pollution
• Land stores and protects the evidence of
  cultural history of humankind
• Land provides space for the transporting and
  connecting of people

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Land Use around Lake Minnetonka
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Blackclear water Redvegetation
Aquahard, man-made surfaces
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What can we see from this picture?
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The measurement of water quality gives new
information.
Satellite imagery enables the measurement of
Water Quality over a much wider area than hand
sampling using Secchi disks. The true-color
image is similar to what is seen by the human
eye, the false-color image incorporates data
in near-infrared wavelengths the water quality
image shows calculated Secchi disk transparency.
Dark blue indicates high water quality, light
green moderate water quality, and dark green
poor water quality. (Images courtesy Upper
Great Lakes Regional Earth Science Applications
Center)
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Blue-water Red-commercial Green-forestry Purple-pu
blic Aqua-wetlands Orange-multi-family
residential Yellow-single residential
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Now about where you live?
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Land use by comparison-1990 and 2000
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What do you see about land use in this area?