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Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$387,000

This project seeks to provide data on insecticide contamination in the soil and the insect community across the state and the effect of sublethal insecticide exposure on insect reproduction.

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 Discovery Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,229
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$295,000

To support teachers in addressing new science standards , we propose a series of workshops across Minnesota facilitating conversation about sustainability and water conservation, specifically integrating western science and Indigenous perspectives.

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
University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,283
Fund Source

This project will provide complementary (same year) physical and chemical data sets for three MPCA prioritized lakes in NE Minnesota to incorporate into the overall State database for MPCA assessment purposes as well as research purposes.

Aitkin
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Pipestone Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,130
Fund Source

This project will collect water quality data at eight stream sites in three of the MPCA targeted watersheds. The sites are located on Medary Creek, Flandreau Creek, Pipestone Creek (2), Split Rock Creek, Rock River, Poplar Creek and Chanarambie Creek. This project will also promote a citizens monitoring program and encourage individuals to participate in a monitoring program.

Lincoln
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Aitkin County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
Fund Source

This project will monitor sites at the Sandy River, Bass Lake, and Remote Lake located in the Big Sandy Lake Watershed.

Aitkin
Cass
Itasca
Recipient
Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,103
Fund Source

This comprehensive water sampling program will assess the water quality of six sites: two main points on the Rock River, two main tributaries to the Rock River, and two points where streams leave the state (Mud and Beaver Creek) for a period of two years.

Lincoln
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,656
Fund Source

This project will collect water chemistry and field parameters at the Popple River, Bowstring River, Big Fork River, Rice River, Caribou Lake and Eagle lake. It will also support the biological assessments being completed by MPCA staff for this Target Watershed Assessment. This project is a collaborative effort with MPCA, 3 SWCDs, and the well established Bigfork River Watch Program. This project is a collaborative effort with Lake of the Woods and Koochiching County SWCDs because the Big Fork Watershed encompasses both Itasca and Koochiching Counties.

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Nobles Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,346
Fund Source

The Nobles Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will test waters needing data for impairment listing in the Rock River and Little Sioux watersheds. Two reaches of the Little Rock River and the Ocheyedan River need stream water assessments. Iowa Lake needs sampling completed for impairment identification. The project will obtain adequate stream and lake data to either list the tested stream reaches and lake on the 303(d) list as impaired, or provide evidence that the stream reaches and lake is not impaired.

Jackson
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Itasca Community College
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$117,272
Fund Source

This assessment will be performed using scientific volunteers, will build capacity at a technical training program at Itasca Community College (ICC), and will provide MPCA with answers providing a reasonable expectation for water quality in this under-studied region of Minnesota.

Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Rock County Soil and Water Conservation District (Land Management)
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,754
Fund Source

This project is a comprehensive two year water sampling program that will effectively assess the water quality of three main tributaries that contribute to the Rock River. These tributaries are the Champepadan Creek, Mound Creek and an unnamed Creek. The sampling frequency will be two times per month in the year 2010 and three times per month in the year 2011. Sampling will begin in April, when the channels are mostly free of ice and continue until October each year.

Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Redwood Cottonwood Rivers Control Area JPB
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
Fund Source

The soil and water conservation districts within the watersheds for the Redwood and Cottonwood Rivers have been putting conservation practices on the ground for years in a long-running collaborative effort.

Brown
Cottonwood
Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Pipestone
Redwood
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

A new GIS technician will help prioritize and target conservation activities and protection strategies in nine north-central Minnesota counties. The GIS technician will create GIS products, assessments, and watershed analysis to identify the high priority areas in each County or watershed in need of protection or restoration using all available data, including LiDAR, soils, land use, completed WRAPS and other datasets. These areas will then be targeted for future resource management efforts, Clean Water Fund projects, and additional conservation activities.

Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Lily Winter
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$949

Technology/Equipment Grant

Itasca
St. Louis
Crow Wing
Cass
Beltrami
Recipient
Benjamin Braff
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,791

Technology/Equipment Grant

Itasca
Recipient
Tammy Horton
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,737

Technology/Equipment Grant

Itasca
Crow Wing
Scott
Le Sueur
Recipient
Michael M. Jasper
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,017

Technology/Equipment Grant

Itasca
Recipient
Nate Johnson
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$587

Technology/Equipment Grant

Itasca
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$874
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Itasca
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Jeffrey S. Brown
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Hennepin
Wright
Itasca
Clay
Dakota
Recipient
Sheila M. Yrjanainen
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$888
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Itasca
Aitkin
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,123
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Aitkin
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin
Chisago
Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Rachael Kilgour
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Lake
Hennepin
Isanti
Anoka
Sherburne
Ramsey
Chisago
Washington
Aitkin
Itasca
Crow Wing
Olmsted
Blue Earth
Recipient
Delina L. White
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$358
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
Itasca
St. Louis
Carlton
Recipient
Lily Winter
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$417
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
Itasca
St. Louis
Crow Wing
Beltrami
Cass
Recipient
Children's Discovery Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota will increase access and deepen engagement with their effectively proven School Service Program. The museum will take down the economic barriers and increase enrollment. This grant will fund more educators and facilitators, curriculum development, scholarship aid, transportation assistance and art/teaching supplies.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Morrison
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,855

To gain intellectual and physical control and provide appropriate storage materials for historic textiles held in public trust.

Murray
Recipient
Society for the Study of Local and Regional History
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,932

To hire qualified professionals to publish an essay on women in Southwest Minnesota during World War I.

Cottonwood
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,700
Murray
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,104
Murray
Recipient
Nobles County Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,950
Jackson
Murray
Nobles
Rock
Recipient
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

Connecting students from Northeastern Minnesota, especially Ely and Cook County schools, to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness through grade-wide day trips and overnight wilderness experiences during the school year.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Society for the Study of Local and Regional History
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,568
To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of women's activities in southwestern Minnesota during World War I.
Lyon
Murray
Pipestone
Rock
Recipient
Murray County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,256
Fund Source

Water flows without concern for political jurisdiction boundaries. This often means project work requires a little more coordination. Jackson, Cottonwood and Murray County did the extra coordination to land a grant to reduce sediment to the West Fork of the Des Moines River. The approved grant has four separate projects inthree counties.Jackson County has two projects: the Federated Rural Electric Association sediment control structure and the City of Jackson bioswale.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Murray
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$351,000
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
City Of Grand Rapids
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$140,000
Fund Source

This project is to construct 2.4 miles of
bituminous/concrete trail that will connect the cities of Grand Rapids, Cohasset and LaPrairie to the Mesabi Trail.

Itasca
Recipient
Area 5 - Southwest Prairie Technical Service Area
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Southwest Prairie Technical Service Area 5 (SWPTSA), located in the southwest corner of Minnesota, encompasses 11 Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs): Cottonwood, Jackson, Lac Qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock, and Yellow Medicine. This project will protect natural resources within the three major river basins of Minnesota, Missouri and Des Moines Rivers. The SWPTSA will assist member SWCDs in locating and identifying priority subwatersheds that have soil erosion and water quality issues using terrain analysis.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

This project will build off the success of the additional geographic information system (GIS) and water planning expertise the TSA8 added in 2016 to provide consistent mapping, water planning assistance and training to partners. This project will help soil and water conservation districts prepare for the 1W1P process before the planning starts. A unified protection methodology is essential for the 1W1P process to be successful. This project will include: unified GIS mapping and protection model for all nine counties respectively.

Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Native Skywatchers Inc
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Turtle Island Skywatchers - Innovative Research and Data Visualization project works to protect Minnesota water, wildlife, and natural resources while empowering Indigenous youth as leaders and all citizens as researchers.

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
Edge of the Wilderness Community Center AKA Edge Center for the Arts
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Two-Year Operating Support Grant

Itasca