The North St. Louis Soil & Water Conservation District will work with lake and resort associations, chambers of commerce, and various community groups to identify 3-6 projects with maximum public benefit. Potential projects include community rain gardens, native vegetative buffers and shoreline restorations that improve water quality by reducing stormwater runoff, cleaning stormwater before it is released to the lakes and retaining water on the land longer.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) began work in 2021 within the Lake Superior South Watershed (Watershed) as part of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) update. Components of the WRAPS include collecting data to fill data gaps and monitoring assistance. With a focus on local needs, this project will provide an avenue for Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (Lake SWCD) to assist MPCA in accomplishing this work and in achieving our overall water quality goals.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) began work in 2021 within the Lake Superior South Watershed (Watershed) as part of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) update. Components of the WRAPS include collecting data to fill data gaps and effectiveness monitoring. With a focus on local needs, this project will provide an avenue for South St. Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (SSL SWCD) to assist MPCA in accomplishing this work and in achieving our overall water quality goals.
This project will collect water quality data for 3 stream sites and 1 lake site within the Lake Superior North major watershed as part of the 10-year cycle for monitoring Minnesota's waters. Stream sites include the Baptism River, Manitou River, and Caribou River. Crooked Lake (west bay) is the only lake site available in Lake County through this Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG). The project will provide two years of surface water quality data to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).
MPRB requests $755,000 to continue shoreline habitat enhancements at Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. This project would add approximately 4,000 linear feet of shoreline habitat to the roughly 4,500 linear feet implemented in 2020 with previous LSOHC funding. Completion of Phase Two would ensure naturalization of a total of approximately 65% of this urban lakeshore. Habitat improvements would specifically target multiple turtle species and native plant species beneficial to pollinators.
The biological communities present in a lake are the result of cumulative effects of natural and human-caused influences within the entire area of land and water that flows into the lake (i.e., the watershed). Biological assessments are used on lakes to identify water pollution and habitat concerns based on the type and abundance of selected animals and their habitats. Certain species cannot survive without clean water and healthy habitat while other species are tolerant of degraded conditions.
Prior to urban development, Lake Alice in Fergus Falls supported a diverse array of vegetation and wildlife. Presently, stormwater enters the lake at the heart of the city through two major storm sewers, resulting in excessive phosphorus, sediment loading, cyanobacteria, and fecal coliform in receiving waters. This project, to be performed by the City of Fergus Falls in FY25, will remove the primary source of phosphorus and total suspended solids through the addition of sediment traps and updated catch basins in the stormwater system flow.
The Bay City Lake Pepin restoration project broke ground in May of 2023. Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance (LPLA), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and several other local partners, has raised over $1 million to support the 35% local cost share portion of the project. What is often missing from USACE projects is outreach and community engagement, this is another gap LPLA hopes to fill. Three boat tours are planned in August, with a naturalist on board to provide a view and information on Lake Pepin successes and concerns, and the restoration project.
This proposal will address two separate problems: the eminent failure of the Lake George dam and two severe erosion sites on the Rum River at Rum River Central Regional Park. We propose to replace the current failing sheet pile dam with a new dam that allows for fish passage on the outlet of Lake George. We also propose to repair two river bank erosion sites rated as 'Severe' totaling approximately 625 feet on the Rum River which will reduce sediment loading into the river by 285 tons per year and will provide improved in stream fish habitat.
The purpose of this project is to gain additional information about the amount of phosphorous flowing into Lake St Croix by implementing additional water quality monitoring and/or to reduce the amount of phosphorous entering Lake St Croix by the implementation of projects that will reduce phosphorus loadings. The St. Croix River Association (SCRA) will coordinate with a subgroup of the St. Croix Basin Water Resources Planning Team and other local resource experts on the identification and funding of comprehensive water monitoring and phosphorus reduction activities in the Lake St.
The project will realign 1,200 feet of the Lake Independence Regional Trail (LIRT) through Baker Park Reserve. The current trail segment is adjacent to the road. Soils under this segment began to fail in the fall 2023. A recently completed engineering study recommends that the trail be moved away from the road and into the park along a closed horse trail that parallels the original alignment but which is away from the road. The project is ready to begin immediately, with the expected completion being 12/31/2024, assuming weather conditions are normal.
The project scope includes final design and reconstruction of the play area located near the Lake Elmo Park Reserve Swim Pond. The improvements will include site work, replacing equipment, improved lighting, landscaping, existing parking lot upgrades, recreational space, and access improvements.
Acquire approximately 40 acres of a former Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority trail corridor located in Victoria, MN for the Lake Minnetonka LRT Regional Trail.
Project will remove a 28-year-old, outdated, creative playground that is in poor condition and replace with a modernized creative playground. The outcome will be a modernized, destination playground that will attract a wide range of youth of varying abilities and other household members. The playground will have areas of play designed for pre-kindergarten and for ages 5 to early teens. Elements of the playground area include play apparatus, shade structures, picnic tables, landscaping, and trails.
Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant.
The Willmar Design Center hired Gemini Associates to write a grant application to the National Register to nominate the Lakeland Hotel to the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was completed, submitted to the State Historic Preservation Office and was determined to meet the documentation requirements for a National Register Registration Form and for the Secretary of the Interiors Standards for Registration.
to construct .5 miles of a 10 foot wide bituminous trail beginning approximately at 64th Avenue East near Highway 61 in Duluth, cross either over or under the highway with a pedestrian bridge or culvert and terminate at Brighton Beach
to construct a 1 mile, 10 foot wide bituminous trail beginning at approximately 60th Avenue East, crossing the Lester River on a new bridge and terminating prior to Highway 61 near Brighton Beach
Lambert Creek is wholly within the Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Organization (VLAWMO) and is located in northeastern Ramsey County. Lambert Creek is surrounded by mainly residential land use and flows through three communities before discharging into East Vadnais Lake, which is the final impoundment reservoir containing the water supply that the Saint Paul Regional Water Services (SPRWS) treats and then distributes to thirteen municipalities including the city of St. Paul.
Past and current monitoring data has shown Ramsey County's Lambert Creek has high levels of total phosphorus (TP), anywhere from 0.14 mg/L to 0.30 mg/L, which is above the proposed State standard of 0.10 mg/L for streams in the Central Region.
With a perceived increase in the frequency and intensity of cyanobacterial algal blooms in Lake of the Woods (LOW), there has been an increased effort to collect information about the nature of algal blooms, nutrient concentrations and sources of nutrients to the LOW.
Attempted to Acquire 108.5 acres of land adjacent to the 555 acre Janet Johnson WMA. The land is a mix of forest (29 acres), wetlands (35 acres on the NWI), and agriculture (44.5 acres).
826 MSP will expand school partnerships in two keyways: 1) add a new 6-8 week in-school workshop program where 826 MSP staff and volunteers facilitate antiracist creative writing units in elementary and middle-school classrooms; 2) expand community engagement work through the addition of Whole-Family Workshops, in partnership with local schools and community organizations.
The University of Minnesota’s Landscape Arboretum is the largest and most diverse horticultural site in Minnesota. It features gardens and natural areas representative of Minnesota and the upper-Midwest that can be explored using several miles of trails. Additionally it conducts fruit and plant breeding research to develop cultivars that have particular desired characteristics, such as cold hardiness or disease resistance. The arboretum has a long-term goal of protecting the entire watershed of which it is a part.
This program is to restore acres of state parks and trails land to native plant communities. MS 86A.05 directs PAT to preserve, perpetuate and restore natural features in state parks that were present in the area of the park at the time of European settlement. Approximately 31 restoration projects have been completed, are in progress, or will be implemented in the spring of 2012, at over 20 state park units. These projects total 1,283 acres.
This project will implement timber stand improvement activities on over 300 acres of private forest land within the Knife River and Skunk Creek watershed; both are not meeting state water quality standards for turbidity. These activities will culminate in planting diverse, large-statured native trees, resilient in the face of forest pests and diseases, climate change, and deer browse. Through this project, significant areas of the Knife River and Skunk Creek watersheds will have a patchwork of seed sources that will naturally expand the footprint of a healthier forest.
Augment, digitize and disseminate repeat topographic surveys of the Whitewater River valley since 1939, which provide critical information for sustainable land and water management.
Lanesboro Arts will launch the Equitable Systems Change project for the Lanesboro Arts Gallery as a commitment to a thorough review and change of current systems and processes, based on detailed recommendations to align practices with equity values and more deeply serve BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists.
The vision of Language Attitude is to research, promote and create culturally sustaining and revitalizing practices in the fields of education, media, and communications. In collaboration with teachers and artists, we will develop and implement an educational toolkit focused around culturally relevant learning activities. This toolkit will empower teachers to create a classroom environment sustaining students’ languages, literacies, and cultures.
-Employ local elder language expert to conduct semi-weekly language tables
-Engage apprentices in basic Ojibwe conversation
-Obtain a state of MN American Indian Language and Culture teaching license (k-12)
-Hold culture committee meetings that will identify needs of language project and help to support
-Committee will also work to elicit maximum participation of community member in Ojibwe education
The objectives of this project will be to teach Takoda Prep's students Ojibwe and Dakota language at a level in which they feel comfortable conversing with fellow classmates and elders and can identify everyday objects and terms in Ojibwe and Dakota. This is important because connecting students' education to their Indigenous language will increase their participation in their overall education. The second objective will be for each student to identify one person in their life with whom they can share the Indigenous language they have learned.
The objectives of this project will be to teach Takoda Prep's students Ojibwe and Dakota language at a level in which they feel comfortable conversing with fellow classmates and elders and can identify everyday objects and terms in Ojibwe and Dakota. This is important because connecting students' education to their Indigenous language will increase their participation in their overall education. The second objective will be for each student to identify one person in their life with whom they can share the Indigenous language they have learned.
The objectives of this project will be to teach Takoda Prep's students Ojibwe and Dakota language at a level in which they feel comfortable conversing with fellow classmates and elders and can identify everyday objects and terms in Ojibwe and Dakota. This is important because connecting students' education to their Indigenous language will increase their participation in their overall education. The second objective will be for each student to identify one person in their life with whom they can share the Indigenous language they have learned.
