All Projects

1821 Results for
Recipient
Lake County SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

This project provides fiscal resources for Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District for civic engagement activities in the Lake Superior South, North, and Cloquet watersheds for Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS). This project also includes provide funding for water chemistry monitoring assistance and diagnostic field work that will fill identified monitoring gaps and stressors within the Lake Superior South watershed.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,883
Fund Source

Concern for Deer Yard and Poplar lakes centers on their current trends of decreasing water transparencies often associated with phosphorus or sediment increases. Although both lakes still meet nutrient goals, trends in Secchi depth may presage emerging issues with the state of the lakes. This has further led to questions whether the productivity of the lakes have changed over time, what the natural or historical condition of the lakes were, what the current trajectory of each lake is, and how to best set management goals.

Cook
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is a co-sponsor and assists with a portion of the financial support for the International Rainy River-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum.

Cook
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Roseau
St. Louis
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,981
Fund Source

This project will dentify critical pathways and areas on the landscape that contribute a disproportionate amount of sediment stressors to selected streams located in LS South and/or LS North HUC 8 watersheds. Unlike other HUC 8 watersheds with one mainstem stream and nested tributaries to the mainstem, LS South and North consist of numerous individual streams flowing to Lake Superior. Each of these streams has a mainstem, tributaries flowing to the mainstem and a surrounding watershed.

Cook
Lake
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,605
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,605

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.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
Recipient
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

Operational Budget Supplement for the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota State University-Moorhead AKA Minnesota State University Moorhead-College for Kids and Teens
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,352

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Norman
Pope
Wilkin
Recipient
Kendra Gilsdorf
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,599

Legacy Individual Arts and Cultural Heritage

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Mahnomen
Norman
Recipient
The Rourke Art Gallery Museum
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,710

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Clay
Becker
Otter Tail
Norman
Hubbard
Recipient
Ulen-Hitterdal Community Education AKA Top Hat Theatre
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,130

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Clay
Becker
Mahnomen
Norman
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,760

Legacy Arts and Cultural Heritage

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Recipient
City of Winona AKA Winona Parks and Recreation
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Legacy Grant

Aitkin
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Chisago
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Lake
Le Sueur
Mille Lacs
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Pipestone
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Recipient
DLCCC, Inc AKA Historic Holmes Theatre
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,950

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Becker
Clay
Mahnomen
Otter Tail
Hubbard
Norman
Hennepin
Pennington
Dakota
Wadena
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Minnesota State University-Moorhead AKA Minnesota State University Moorhead-College for Kids and Teens
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Clay
Wilkin
Becker
Otter Tail
Norman
Polk
Grant
Stevens
Recipient
City of Moorhead Parks and Recreation
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,850

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Clay
Wilkin
Traverse
Norman
Polk
Becker
Otter Tail
Stearns
Wadena
Hennepin
Douglas
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,615

Legacy Organization Arts and Cultural Heritage

Clay
Becker
Otter Tail
Norman
Norman
Recipient
Cook County
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000,000
Fund Source

The project will restore and protect cold-water streams for natural occurring brook trout, a sensitive, and semi-rare species, by removing an undersized culvert. The structure is a fish barrier and is creating bank erosion. The project is part of a watershed project identified in local planning efforts and through collaboration with local partners.

Cook
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,791,000

Provide approximately 15 matching grants for local parks, trail, acquisition of natural areas and trails to connect people safety to desirable community locations and regional or state facilities.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Norman County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,130
To rehouse a collection of historic clothing pieces in order to better preserve them.
Norman
Recipient
Norman County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,191

The NCHS's collection of vintage clothing was re-packaged, re-labeled and re-cataloged using proper storage methods. The 232 textiles are now more accessible.

 

Norman
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

This project is designed to reduce sediment in the Wild River River based on a state approved plan (TMDL). The estimated water quality benefits completed by this project are 12,980 (120 truckloads) tons of soil saved per year, which will assist in reducing turbidity impairments downstream on the LWRR.

Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District/BWSR
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,888,000
Fund Source

This Corridor Habitat Restoration Project is a cooperative effort between the District (WRWD), MN Board of Soil
and Water Resources (MNBWSR), MN DNR, and Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB). This is a
voluntary program with the long-term goal to restore a natural corridor area along the Lower Reach of the Wild
Rice River. When completed, the project will restore 23 channelized river miles to 50 miles of natural stream
channel. The funding from this allocation was used to protect and restore approximately 151 acres of floodplain

Norman
Recipient
Wild Rivce WD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,345,000
Fund Source

Channelization of the Lower Wild Rice River in the early 1900s converted 50 miles of sinuous river channel to 23 miles of straight channel and lost several thousand acres of wetland and grassland habitat within the river corridor. Through an established and successful partnership between the Wild Rice Watershed District and the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources, this 4th request for funding from LSOHC will permanently protect 420 acres of private lands in easements.

Norman
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,975,000
Fund Source
This Corridor Habitat Restoration Project is a cooperative effort between the District (WRWD), MN Board of Soil and Water Resources (MNBWSR), MN DNR, and Red River Watershed Management Board (RRWMB). This is a voluntary program with the long-term goal to restore a natural corridor area along the Lower Reach of the Wild Rice River. When completed, the project will restore 23 channelized river miles to 50 miles of natural stream channel.
Norman
Recipient
Cook County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,000
Fund Source

to complete improvements and enhancements on snowmobile trails near Lutsen

Cook
Recipient
International Water Institute
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,867
Fund Source

This project will support water quality monitoring and data analysis in the Red River Basin. The monitoring will assist in providing water chemistry data needed to calculate annual pollutant loads for the Major Watershed Load Monitoring Program (MWLMP) and provide short term data sets of select parameters to other MPCA programs.

Beltrami
Clearwater
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$460,000

Leveraging new statewide climate data, we will assess future change in the duration, frequency and magnitude of heavy precipitation and drought events and engage communities to prepare for these extremes.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,994
Fund Source

Phase 2 of the Marsh River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project includes: continued civic engagement; production of the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study, which allocates pollutant load reductions for impaired waters; and production of the WRAPS report, which identifies implementation strategies that will maintain or improve water quality in many lakes and streams throughout the watershed.

Clay
Norman
Recipient
Wild Rice Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,052
Fund Source

The goals of Phase I of the Marsh River Watershed (WRW) Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project are to: 1) gather or develop watershed data needed for the development of the WRAPS project; 2) establish project and sub-basin work groups, develop a social outcomes strategy, and develop a civic engagement evaluation strategy to guide the WRAPS project; and 3) begin to identify, create, and organize tools that can be used to determine potential stressors and priority management areas.

Clay
Norman
Recipient
Matt Kania
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Meredith Cornett
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,304
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Itasca
Recipient
Jeanette M. Cox
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Aitkin
St. Louis
Cook
Lake
Recipient
Jeanette M. Cox
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,350
McKnight Fellowship
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Carlton
Koochiching
Itasca
Recipient
Ann Klefstad
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,350

McKnight Fellowship

Cook
Hennepin
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Candace LaCosse
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Cook
St. Louis
Recipient
Ellen R. Redshaw
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,175
McKnight Fellowship
Cook
St. Louis
Recipient
Adam P. Swanson
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Ramsey
Cook
Hennepin
Recipient
Kenneth R. Marunowski
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,058
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Carlton
Cook
Recipient
Ian Andrus
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$864
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Cook
Recipient
Peter Henrikson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,325
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Cook