E Authorizing and providing for the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) 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, requiring new landowners after sale of the property to continue the easements under the same terms or conditions, providing for termination; authorizing and providing for private landowners to establish lands as heritage forest land by preparing a heritage forest stewardship plan and completing a stewardship registration agreement; prohibiting the designation of heritage forests from imposing additional restrictions on the commissioner of transportation (DOT) or local road authorities to construct, improve or maintain highways and the provisions from authorizing the acceptance of grants or agreements preempting state regulation and control of state lands (mk, ja)