E Authorizing and providing for the commissioner of natural resources to establish heritage forest areas to be called the big woods heritage forest in Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Le Sueur, McLeod, Meeker, Nicollet, Rice, Sibley, Scott, Waseca and Wright counties under certain conditions for threatened forest areas preservation and protection purposes; specifying certain general powers of the commissioner, authorizing and providing for the commissioner or local government units to acquire heritage forest land through conservation easements with landowners, specifying certain landowner agreement requirements, authorizing new landowners after sale of the property to continue the easements under the same terms or conditions; authorizing and providing for private landowners to establish lands as heritage forest land through heritage forest stewardship plans preparation and stewardship registration agreements completion; granting the commissioner and local government units certain termination authority; requiring the commissioner to by a certain date provide a complete description of the public involvement process for timber harvest plans to the legislature, requiring public notice and input in affected areas and the posting of plans on the DNR web site; modifying certain procedures for auction sales of timber on state lands and for the granting of permits to remove timber sold at public auction and certain surety bond requirements; requiring the commissioner to amend certain rules relating to the public use of recreational areas to regulate the use of motor vehicles on certain forest lands and roads and the construction of trails on forest lands (mk, ja)