We will assess the environmental quality of prairies across Minnesota. On-the-ground surveys and contaminant risk assessments will help inform partner management actions, endangered species recovery plans, and pollinator reintroduction efforts.
Large deposits of copper, nickel, cobalt, and other minerals in northeastern Minnesota could provide huge economic and employment benefits to the state while becoming an important source of important metals for the country. However, the mining required to extract them could have significant water quality impacts in a region that includes the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness and other environmentally sensitive watersheds.
The Berger Fountain, known as the dandelion fountain to most, was installed in 1975 by Benjamin Berger and has been a beloved neighborhood landmark in Loring Park and a favorite location for wedding photographers and children ever since. Ben Berger was a park board commissioner and, after seeing a dandelion fountain in Australia, fundraised to build a sister fountain right here in Minnesota.
Wild rice abundance has greatly declined across Big Rice Lake, while other competitive vegetation has drastically increased. This proposal will utilize knowledge gained from small-scale vegetation work as well as hydrological alterations and apply it to a lake-wide scale to enhance conditions for wild rice success. A total of 2,072 acres of wild rice habitat will be enhanced as a result of the OHF lake outlet work that will impact water levels. 850 acres of the existing 1,000 pickerel weed will be treated to allow wild rice to regenerate.
This project will complete a Total Maximum Daily Load Implementation Plan for the watersheds of Big Sandy and Minnewawa Lakes. This restoration plan will provide pollution reduction and watershed management strategies that are developed with input from stakeholders in the watersheds.
This study will leverage our current bioacoustics monitoring framework to assess avian diversity at the statewide scale through a citizen science acoustic monitoring program, with a focus on private lands.
This project consists of the design of a new marina/dock complex on Birch Lake in Babbitt Minnesota. The City will own and operate the marina/dock complex.
This project will expand the Truth Telling Series that collected, preserved, and shared suppressed Dakota and Anishinaabe histories through community oral narratives. The project will document untold and silenced narratives from Black Minnesotans in urban and rural communities to develop new and easily accessible curriculum for grades Pre-K-6, in partnership with numerous BIPOC scholars, elders, and community partners. The project includes a collaborative story collection. The stories will be collected, documented, and written.
Language and Culture Resource Center to locate and centralize the existing resources relating to the Bois Forte Language and culuture. To also provide Bois Forte community with opportunities to learn the language and culture, not only in an edcuational setting but also in a hands on setting while engaging cultural practices.
1. Planning a language camp 2. Purchase new equipment needed to focus on retaining the language and ensuring its survival into the future 3. Recording elders speaking, teaching, and doing cultural activities in the language
1. Planning a language camp 2. Purchase new equipment needed to focus on retaining the language and ensuring its survival into the future 3. Recording elders speaking, teaching, and doing cultural activities in the language
1. Increased head start/day care curriculum prepared for future years a. Find current and past curriculum to update them b. Identify and visit programs to help model or help increase language and cultural output c. Purchase supplies/curriculum to be used for future years 2. Increased participation and language usage from adults a. Maintaining current language programs available b. Increasing teacher fluency c. Purchase giveaways or materials to be handed out 3. Teacher buy-in and work flows a. Incorporating training days for staff b. Increase language usage while at work c.
1. Increased head start/day care language and culture a. Increased cultural activities and language by kids b. Identify and visit programs to help model or help increase language and cultural output c. Purchase supplies/curriculum to be used for future years 2. Increased participation and language usage from adults a. Maintaining current language programs available b. Increasing participating adult fluency through testing materials c. New recommendations for language hand outs. 3. Teacher buy-in and work flows a. Incorporating training days for staff b.
