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2289 Results for
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$227,500
Fund Source

The Little Rock Lake Total Maximum Daily Load study has identified areas in the watershed where phosphorus reduction is needed and what best management practices need to be applied. This is a coordinated implementation effort with Benton and Morrison Soil and Water Conservation Districts and Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Little Rock Lake Association, the livestock industry and other partners to install best management practices at numerous sites to continue cleaning up Little Rock Lake.

Benton
Morrison
Recipient
DU
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,634,000
Fund Source

This Phase 9 request for Ducks Unlimited's Living Lakes program will enhance or restore 1,440 acres of wetlands and adjacent prairie grasslands for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Minnesota DNR on public lands and private lands under permanent easement. DU biologists and engineers will design wetland restorations and water control structures for active management of shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other wildlife, and people, primarily in SW Minnesota's Prairie Pothole Region.

Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hennepin
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Morrison
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DU
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,867,000
Fund Source

This Phase 10 request for Ducks Unlimited's Living Lakes program will enhance or restore 1,325 acres of wetlands and adjacent prairie grasslands for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Minnesota DNR on public lands and private lands under permanent easement. DU biologists and engineers will design wetland restorations and water control structures for active management of shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other wildlife, and people, primarily in SW Minnesota's Prairie Pothole Region.

Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hennepin
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Morrison
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,155,000
Fund Source

This Phase 8 request for Ducks Unlimited's Living Lakes program will enhance or restore 1,070 acres of wetlands and adjacent prairie grasslands for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Minnesota DNR on public lands and private lands under permanent USFWS easement. Where required, DU engineers will design water control structures to restore wetland hydrology and allow active management of shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other wildlife, and people, primarily in Minnesota's Prairie Pothole Region.

Becker
Big Stone
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Douglas
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Morrison
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
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
Lake County SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Fund Source

This project will develop, implement, and evaluate civic engagement activities within the Rainy River Headwaters and Cloquet watersheds. In addition, Lake County will also assist in expanding water quality monitoring efforts in support of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Todd SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$714,854
Fund Source
Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Emmons & Olivier Resources (EOR)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,128
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for all impaired stream reaches and lakes within the Long Prairie and Red Eye Watersheds.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Douglas County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD)
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,729
Fund Source

This project will provide surface water quality data to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to inform the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) update process. All locations are in the Douglas County portion of the Long Prairie Watershed. Sites have been targeted based on local knowledge and citizen concerns. A culvert inventory will also be completed through this project. This will provide flow path data that will be utilized in future water quality analysis and project designs.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Douglas Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,450
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data to support the development of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy with parameter-specific targets that will maintain or improve water quality for the Long Prairie River Watershed. This project will also provide an important framework for civic and citizen engagement and communication, contributing to long-term public participation in surface water protection and restoration activities throughout the watershed.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,900
Fund Source

This project is to finalize the Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) and Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategies (WRAPS) for the Red Eye and Long Prairie Watersheds.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Todd SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,032,278
Fund Source

This funding will be used to help fulfill the goals established in the Long Prairie CWMP. Approximate goals addressed are listed with the activities addressing them. Anticipated projects to be implemented include agricultural waste management facilities, agricultural land management, exclusion fencing, rain gardens, subsurface sewage treatment upgrades, shoreline restorations, and forestry. Other projects will be considered as opportunities arise.

Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,975
Fund Source

The objectives of this project are to update and extend the simulation periods of the St. Louis River and Cloquet River watershed Hydrologic Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) model and the Duluth urban area HSPF model and conduct recalibration of the hydrology and water quality simulations. The model updates will support work to update the existing Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) reports.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
St Louis, South SWCD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,228,654
Fund Source
Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$163,100
Fund Source

This project will provide a protocol for prioritizing sites in the St. Louis Area of Concern (AOC ) for restoration based on site-specific bioavailability considerations. Despite large data collection efforts focused on sediment chemistry, the extent to which sediment with moderate levels of contamination is available for uptake into biota and therefore contributing to Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI)s is still largely unknown.

St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (USEPA-GLRI)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$219,668
Fund Source

The St. Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) conservation partners are focused on removing Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) in the estuary and eventually delisting the SLRAOC. Cooperative efforts between multiple resource agencies and regional stakeholders have identified a host of restoration objectives, developed project support activities, and partially secured funding that includes a state commitment through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund.

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (USEPA-GLRI)
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,112,252
Fund Source

The St. Louis River Area of Concern (SLRAOC) conservation partners are focused on removing Beneficial Use Impairments (BUI) in the estuary and eventually delisting the SLRAOC. Cooperative efforts between multiple resource agencies and regional stakeholders have identified a host of restoration objectives, developed project support activities, and partially secured funding that includes a state commitment through the Minnesota Clean Water Fund.

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source

The goal of the St. Louis River Watershed Mercury Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is to determine the mercury reductions needed to meet the water quality standards for mercury and support healthy consumption of fish by people and wildlife. Fishing is important in this watershed for economic and cultural reasons, including the exercise of tribal treaty rights; Fond du Lac’s 0.77 ng/L water quality standard protects subsistence fishing. This project will result in the development of the Mercury TMDL calculations and associated mercury source assessment.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) & U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000
Fund Source

This project will provide technical, planning and engineering assistance to the MPCA for the development and implementation of the St. Louis River Remedial Action Plan (RAP). USACE and USEPA in partnership with the MPCA will administer work plans to complete a sediment assessment for Minnesota areas within Superior Bay, St. Louis Bay, Lower St. Louis River and the Upper St. Louis River, encompassing approximately 5,349 acres of the St. Louis River and Estuary.

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,599
Fund Source

The St. Louis River watershed is one of the largest watersheds in northern Minnesota and the largest single contributing watershed to Lake Superior. Surface waters are abundant with 353 lakes and 97 streams segments. Large areas of forest and wetlands help to sustain areas of exceptional water quality. However, land use changes have degraded many lakes, rivers, and streams. 21 stream reaches have aquatic life impairments, as identified by high turbidity (1 reach), poor quality aquatic macro-invertebrate community (16 reaches), and/or poor quality fish community (12 reaches).

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,000
Fund Source

This Sauk River Watershed District project will conduct the Whitney Park river clean-up, adopt a river program and other community events as part of their healthy living programs; will collaborate with the city of St. Cloud to install a rain garden demonstration site at Whitney Park; use local radio and public television stations to promote the District’s “neighborhood rain garden initiative” and other incentive programs.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
To provide public access to the story of the Madeira shipwreck by adding an interpretive panel to the Madeira's anchor on display at Split Rock State Park
Lake
Recipient
Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,670
To fabricate and install an outdoor exhibit of a hull section of the Madeira, a shipwreck listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Lake
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
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
Sharee L. Johnson AKA Sharee Johnson
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Recipient
Ann Klefstad
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,350

McKnight Fellowship

Cook
Hennepin
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Rachel A. Nelson
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Lake
St. Louis
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Patricia X. Canelake
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,318

McKnight Individual Artist Grant

Lake
Recipient
Deborah J. Sussex
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,325
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Keiko Williams
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,325
Chamber Music workshop
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Recipient
Danielle Sosin
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,325
Book tour
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Recipient
Rachel A. Nelson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,325
Finge festival show
Lake
Recipient
Paul L. Deaner
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,610

Attend workshop and research Arthur Miller's play, "Death of a Salesman," to aid in local theater production.

Lake
Recipient
Stephanie M. Ellison AKA Stephanie Mirocha
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,620
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Cook
Carlton
Aitkin
Recipient
Ron P. Benson
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,080
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,365
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin