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Board enacts ordinance allowing regulated hunting at Chain of Lakes County Park
Summary
Stearns County updated its parks ordinance to allow regulated shotgun and archery hunting at Chain of Lakes County Park, imposing no-firearm buffer zones near dwellings and establishing a county hunting permit and signage requirements.
Stearns County commissioners enacted an update to the county parks ordinance to permit regulated hunting at Chain of Lakes County Park, the board decided Oct. 5.
Parks Director Ben Anderson said the ordinance revision is largely housekeeping and intended to add rules specific to the newly acquired 250-acre Chain of Lakes County Park south of Cold Spring. The county accepted the parcel in 2022 with Outdoor Heritage Fund conditions that the land remain open to hunting and protect…
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