Statewide Survey of Historical and Archaeological Sites
$300,000 the first year and $300,000 the second year are for a contract or contracts to be awarded on a competitive basis to conduct statewide surveys of Minnesota's sites of historical, archaeological, and cultural significance.
Over the past three biennia, the survey has: performed fieldwork in 37 different counties; undertaken intensive archaeological surveys in 12 counties; discovered and documented over 200 previously unrecorded archaeological sites; examined 86 previously known archaeological sites and 78 historic sites; developed innovative strategies using LiDAR to map burial mounds and logging dams; completed the first comprehensive assessment of burial mound survival in over 100 years; compiled the first comprehensive database of all cemetery locations in Minnesota; completed a comprehensive assessment of historical significance for historic dams; sponsored a comprehensive assessment of major historic masonry ruin survival (only 41 remain in the state), and analyzed sites and artifacts from four important prehistoric complexes.
William R. Stoeri, President
Missy S. Thompson, Vice President
Ruth Huss, Vice President
D. Stephen Elliott, Secretary
Dean M. Nelson, Treasurer
Suzanne Blue
Brenda J. Child
Robert Bruininks
Judith S. Corson
D. Stephen Elliott
Phyllis Rawls Goff
William D. Green
David R. Hakensen
Ruth S. Huss
Martha Kaemmer
Dennis L. Lamkin
David M. Larson
Charles Mahar
Dean M. Nelson
Elizabeth M. Nordlie
Dennis Nguyen
Peter R. Reis
Hussein Samatar
Simon Stevens
Susan Kenny Stevens
William R. Stoeri
Karen Wilson Thissen
Missy Staples Thompson
Eleanor Winston
Ex-Officio:
Mark Dayton, Governor
Yvonne Prattner Solon Lieutenant Governor
Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State
Lori Swanson, Attorney General
Rebecca Otto, State Auditor"