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4187 Results for
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,000

Over 527,000 acres of unmanaged woodlands are being used for livestock grazing throughout Minnesota. Managing these grazed woodlands based on the use of best management practices can provide environmental and economic opportunities, including improved water quality, maximized forage production, and higher-quality timber. The best management practices involved are commonly used in other parts of the country with other types of ecosystems, but have not been widely adopted in Minnesota due to a lack of knowledge and experience with implementing them within the ecosystems of Minnesota.

Beltrami
Benton
Carver
Cass
Crow Wing
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wadena
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Transportation Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$553,000

We will generate genome sequences of bacteria growing in wastewater treatment bioreactors, allowing us to improve phosphorus and nitrogen removal from wastewater in Minnesota and to discover novel pharmaceutical compounds.

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
Pheasants Forever
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,120,000
Fund Source

This project will utilize a combination of wetland restoration, invasive tree removal, seeding, and prescribed fire, to improve habitat quality, diversity, and productivity on Wildlife Management Areas and Waterfowl Production Areas within the prairie and metro regions of Minnesota.

Anoka
Brown
Carver
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,772,000
Fund Source

6,870 acres of grassland and wetland habitat will be enhanced or restored through this proposal to benefit upland dependent species on Minnesota lands open to public hunting. These include Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA), and National Wildlife Refuges (NWR). We will accomplish this by working with our partners to follow best practices to conduct wetland restorations, conservation grazing, invasive tree removal, prescribed fire, and diversity seeding in the prairie, forest/prairie transition, and metro regions.

Anoka
Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
PF
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,902,000
Fund Source

In this phase of the Enhanced Public Lands - Grassland program, Pheasants Forever (PF) will enhance or restore 4,000 acres of upland and wetland habitat. The goal of this program is to improve habitat on existing Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs), and National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) that are open to public hunting. PF does this by working with agency partners to develop restoration and enhancement plans and hiring local, private contractors to complete work.

Anoka
Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,454

Equipment and Facilities Improvement

McLeod
Meeker
Sibley
Wright
Nicollet
Kandiyohi
Redwood
Stearns
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Scott
Dakota
Le Sueur
Renville
Cass
Cass
Todd
Douglas
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Carver
Scott
Dakota
St. Louis
Wadena
Pine
Chisago
Recipient
Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community, Inc AKA Hallberg Center for the Arts
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Essentials Support Grant

Chisago
Pine
Washington
Isanti
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Hennepin
Recipient
Judith A. Saye-Willis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Mower
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Waseca
Dakota
Scott
Stearns
Blue Earth
Nicollet
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
James Bohnhoff
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Rice
Ramsey
Scott
Steele
Washington
Winona
Recipient
U of MN - MN Geological Survey
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$115,000
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Gammelgarden Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,010
Washington
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Morrison
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Morrison County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To provide an engineering assessment of the museum's environmental systems.
Morrison
Recipient
Washington County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,000
Washington
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,162,000

Expand fishing opportunities in urban areas, teach more kids and families how to fish, and inventory and inform the public about safe and legal shore fishing sites throughout Minnesota.

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
Washington Conservation District
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to adapt and expand the existing successful Master Water Stewards program to engage citizens and catalyze clean water projects in suburban, exurban and rural communities of Washington and southern Chisago Counties. As part of this project, 20 citizens' stewards will be recruited and trained to work in partnership with the Washington Conservation District and area watershed management organizations to implement clean water projects in identified priority areas.

Chisago
Washington
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

The Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota (CMSM) will complete the innovative community engagement process started with the previous Legacy grant. CMSM will build upon the progress created with the previous Legacy grant by transitioning the team's focus to carrying-out of strategic access strategies that engage a diversity of community members in the exhibit development process, resulting in the completion of fabrication plans for exhibits and environments that are accessible; engaging; and reflect the diverse art, culture, and heritage of southern Minnesota.

Aitkin
Anoka
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$197,000

Building on the exhibit development community engagement process carried through three successive Legacy grants, the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota used the 2013 direct appropriation to prepare for and begin building exhibit components for its permanent facility by combining professional museum expertise with local resources, volunteers, and community involvement.

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,000

Building on the exhibit development community engagement process carried out through four successive Legacy grants, the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota will use the 2014-15 direct appropriation to complete fabrication and installation of several exhibit components for its permanent facility. Local resources, volunteers, and community involvement will be combined with museum expertise to complete this process.

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
To improve management of archival materials through proper storage.
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$453,000

This proposal aims to answer this question: How would the water quality of Minnesota's lakes change in the next century under future scenarios of urbanization, agricultural growth, and climate change?

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
Multiple Local Government Units
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,234,350
Fund Source

Currently, there are approximately 5,050 feedlots with fewer than 300 animal units that need to come into compliance with State feedlot rules. Clean Water Feedlot Water Quality Management Grant funds are being used to provide financial assistance to landowners with feedlot operations less than 300 animal units in size and located in a riparian area or impaired watershed.

Aitkin
Benton
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Morrison
Renville
Stearns
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,944
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Washington
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,020

To hire qualified technicians to install a fire suppression system in the Afton Historical Society's collections storage area.

Washington
Recipient
City of Stillwater (Fire Department)
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire consultants to develop and install an exhibit on the history of the Stillwater Fire Department.
Washington
Recipient
City of Stillwater (Fire Department)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an
Washington
Recipient
City of Afton
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Washington
Recipient
City of Afton
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Washington
Recipient
Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,000

The number of people from other cultures and languages is increasing in Minnesota. It is important that they learn the behaviors that will help Minnesota preserve and enhance its natural resources. Yet, communicating and effectively interacting with people across cultures to change behaviors on natural resources, conservation, pollution prevention and stewardship is challenging. Most environmental information is designed for reaching native English readers. Translating and printing information often does not reach the intended audiences, who are often part of an oral culture.

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Morrison Soil and Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,575
Fund Source

This site has been monitored for several years due to past storm events causing flood waters that impacted State Highway 371 and Belle Prairie housing developments. This site is contributing large amounts of sediment and is one of the worst erosion sites identified along the Mississippi River in Morrison County.

Morrison
Recipient
Operatunity Theatre AKA Saint Croix Valley Opera
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
StoryArk
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
Valley Friendship Club
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
Washington County Jail
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
Film Score Fest
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
Lao Culture Dance and Traditional Fashion Show LLC
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
Vets for Music
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington
Recipient
StoryArk
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Flexible Support

Washington