STATE OF MINNESOTA

IN COURT OF APPEALS

C7-01-799

Loren Hentges, et al.,

Relators,

vs.

Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources,

Respondent,

Rice Creek Watershed District,

Respondent,

St. Paul Audubon Society, et al.,

Respondents,

Minnesota Department of Transportation,

Respondent.

Filed January 4, 2002

Affirmed

Gordon W. Shumaker, Judge

Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources

File No. 01-1

Paul R. Haik, Krebsbach & Haik, Ltd., 701 Fourth Avenue South, Suite 500, Minneapolis, MN 55415 (for relators)

Mike Hatch, Attorney General, William A. Szotkowski, Assistant Attorney General, 445 Minnesota Street, Suite 900, St. Paul, MN 55101-2127 (for respondent Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources)

Harold H. Sheff, Michelle J. Ulrich, Smith, Gendler, Shiell, Sheff, Ford, & Maher, P.A., 601 Second Avenue South, 33530 U.S. Bank Place, Minneapolis, MN 55402 (for respondent Rice Creek Watershed District)

A. W. Clapp III, 785 Goodrich Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105 (for respondents St. Paul Audubon Society, et al.)

David L. Phillips, Office of the Attorney General, 525 Park Street, Suite 200, St. Paul, MN 55103 (for respondent, Minnesota Department of Transportation)

Gerald W. Von Korff, John C. Kolb, Rinke-Noonan, 700 Wells Fargo Center, P.O. Box 1497, St. Cloud, MN 56302 (for Amicus Curiae Lac qui Parle County and Polk County)

Considered and decided by Shumaker, Presiding Judge, Halbrooks, Judge, and Mulally, Judge.*

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