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Recipient
Loretta A. Worthing AKA Lory Worthing
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$293
Quick Start Opportunity Grants
Hennepin
Anoka
Ramsey
Carver
Scott
Washington
Dakota
Recipient
Claudia Nascimento
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,086

This project is a documentary film about the intercultural experiences of immigrants living in Minnesota. It features footage of live performances at the Southern Theater, followed by talkbacks with cultural leaders and scholars; and the voices of audience and community members, recorded in post-performance conversations and interviews.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

We will characterize environmental drivers contributing to the decline of wild rice using lake sediment cores to reconstruct historical wild rice abundance in relation to lake and watershed stressors.

Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Benton
Big Stone
Cass
Chippewa
Crow Wing
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Pope
Renville
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Wilkin
Brown
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Blue Earth
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Waseca
Winona
Recipient
Scott County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,538
Fund Source

Development of regional trail master plans for the Southern Scott Regional Trail Search Corridor (from Cedar Lake Farm to Cleary Lake Regional Park) and the Louisville Regional Trail Search Corridor including consulting services to prepare the master plans and facilitate a public engagement process.

Scott
Recipient
BWSR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,059,500
Fund Source

The RIM-WRP program will expand past efforts and provide important benefits to the citizens of Minnesota by restoring and permanently protecting priority wetlands and associated upland native grassland wildlife habitat via perpetual conservation easements. This funding will leverage $12.6 million of federal WRP funds for the State of Minnesota and is expected to create and sustain 343 jobs and income to local landowners, businesses and others in the state based on USDA economic estimates.

Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Mahnomen
McLeod
Norman
Pennington
Pope
Rice
Steele
Swift
Swift
Recipient
Monarch Joint Venture
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,000

This project uses remote sensing technology (UAVs) to evaluate pollinator habitat on energy and transportation lands across 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
Scott County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,000
Fund Source

Spring Lake Regional Park. Remove Co. Rd. 81 and restore the former road bed, and develop an off-leash dog area.

Scott
Recipient
Barr Engineering
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Fund Source

This project will complete the final Implementation Plan, semi-annual and final reports and hold project meetings. The Implementation Plan will identify target areas and priorities for implementation strategies to improve water quality for Bluff Creek. This project will build the groundwork so Bluff Creek will meet water quality standards for aquatic life in the future.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
City of Eden Prairie
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000

To design, produce, and install interpretive signs for the Riley-Jacques Farmstead.

Carver
Hennepin
Scott
Recipient
BWSR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,808,000
Fund Source

Under the CREP partnership with USDA, 71 easements were recorded on a total of 4,365 acres to restore previously drained wetlands and adjacent uplands. The easements were accomplished with local implementation done by SWCD, NRCS and FSA staff within the 54 county CREP area and leveraged federal funds for both landowner payments and cost share for conservation practice installation.

Becker
Blue Earth
Carver
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stearns
Wilkin
Recipient
BWSR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000,000
Fund Source

The Clean Water Fund (CWF) and Outdoor Heritage Fund (OHF) were used together to secure easements on buffer areas. 25 easements have been recorded for a total of 672.1 acres and are reported in the output tables for the final report (acre total does not include Clean Water Fund acres). The total acreage from both CWF and OHF sources for recorded easements is 1,152.4 acres. Only the OHF acres are being reported in this final report to be consistent with the approved accomplishment plan.

Blue Earth
Brown
Clay
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lincoln
Martin
Mower
Nicollet
Pipestone
Renville
Rock
Stearns
Waseca
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
BWSR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000,000
Fund Source

Under the CREP partnership with USDA, 28 easements were recorded on a total of 2,390 acres to restore previously drained wetlands and adjacent uplands. Two easements are RIM wetland easements that were required to complete wetland restoration work on an adjacent easement secured with 2018 Wetlands funding. The landowners received the RIM-Only payment rate. The easements were accomplished with local implementation done by SWCD, NRCS and FSA staff within the 54 county CREP area and leveraged federal funds for landowner payments and conservation practices.

Brown
Freeborn
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Redwood
Renville
Stearns
Todd
Wright
Recipient
BWSR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,708,000
Fund Source

The Clean Water Fund (CWF) and Outdoor Heritage Fund (OHF) were used together to secure easements on buffer areas. 84 easements have been recorded for a total of 1,441 acres and are reported in the output tables for the final report (acre total does not include Clean Water Fund acres). The total acreage from both CWF and OHF sources for recorded easements is 2,793.2 acres. Only the OHF acres are being reported in this final report to be consistent with the approved accomplishment plan.

Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Freeborn
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
BWSR
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,392,000
Fund Source

This continuation of the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Reserve buffers program will protect and restore riparian areas, permanently protecting approximately 600 acres on 17 easements. This program will continue utilizing a science-based ranking and selection process and be implemented locally, working with Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) staff in targeted areas in the state. Historically, buffer funding was used to expand basic water quality buffers into larger buffers.

Cottonwood
Mower
Scott
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
BWSR
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,536,000
Fund Source

Using the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) program, this project addresses the potential loss of grassland habitats from conversion to cropland and accelerates grassland protection efforts not covered by other programs. Working in coordination with 11 established Prairie Conservation Plan Local Technical Teams (LTTs), and local SWCDs this proposal will enroll 936 RIM acres (approximately 12 easements), focusing on Minnesota Prairie Plan identified landscapes.

Becker
Jackson
Lyon
Meeker
Murray
Rock
Traverse
Watonwan
Recipient
Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,940,000
Fund Source

This program is a part of a comprehensive clean water strategy to prevent sediment and nutrients from entering our lakes, rivers, and streams; enhance fish and wildlife habitat; protect groundwater and wetlands. Specifically the Riparian Buffer Easement Program targets creating buffers on riparian lands adjacent to public waters, except wetlands. Through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM) and in partnership with Soil and Water Conservation Districts and private landowners, permanent conservation easements are purchased and buffers established.

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Faribault
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Steele
Stevens
Wilkin
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$622,000

We propose identifying hot spots of groundwater chloride pollution of surface waters due to excessive road salt use, which is a long term source increasing chloride impairment of surface waters.

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
Scott SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$229,000
Fund Source
Scott
Recipient
Scott County WMO
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$337,397
Fund Source
Scott
Recipient
Scott Watershed Management Organization
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Fund Source

This goal of this project is improving water quality and expanding critical wildlife habitat by permanently restoring and enhancing wetlands in the Sand Creek and Prior/Spring Lake Watersheds. By making sign-up payments available through this grant, this project will restore or enhance 400 to 500 acres of wetlands moderating flows and improving water quality. The NRCS has committed $2.5 million through the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program (WREP), the Scott WMO $314,000, the PLSLWD $145,000, Rice SWCD $40,000, Le Sueur SWCD $40,000, and the Scott SWCD $75,000.

Scott
Recipient
Savage, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$459,665
Fund Source

Calcareous fens such as the Savage Fen are fragile ecosystems existing only under a unique combination of soil type, hydrology, chemistry, and vegetation. The City of Savage is continuing efforts to protect this important ecosystem through this project. Two large ravines -Dakota Avenue and McColl's Bluff - discharge to the Fen, which was granted special status under the State's Wetlands Conservation Act. Both ravines are highly eroded and carry a significant amount of stormwater and sediment to the Savage Fen.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,715

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

To hire a qualified and experienced security firm to evaluate the current level of museum security.

Scott
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$957,000

Scientific and Natural Area (SNA) strategic acquisition (~85 acres) will conserve Minnesota's most unique places and rare species for everyone's benefit.

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
Scott County Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,000

To develop a partnership and a visitor experience plan for the Shakopee riverfront corridor.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,998

To begin the process of significantly enhancing access to the free arts and cultural programming at the Scott County Fair. A new sound and lights system for the stage will improve the audience experience during arts and cultural shows, and performer and audience feedback will help guide the fair as they design a new stage area for future years.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Agricultural Society’
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To complete the state’s only mobile oral history recording studio. The Scott County Agricultural Society will completed the road-worthy customized trailer to make it a sound-proof, climate-controlled recording studio.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,772
To prepare a booklength manuscript based on oral histories with World War II veterans from Scott County
Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of Scott County.
Scott
Recipient
Scott Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$78,338
Fund Source

This project will provide lake and stream monitoring assistance to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), identifying impaired waters within the Lower Minnesota RIver Watershed (Watershed ID: 07020012) according to the Intensive Watershed Monitoring (IWM) Approach.

Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Scott
Recipient
Asian Economic Development Association
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,000

This project, SEA Us Write & Design Fellowship, is an arts and cultural education program aimed at helping lower-income Minnesota Southeast Asian youth aged 16-18 develop as writers and artists. The program will provide creative writing classes and internships during summer breaks and after school, offering inclusive spaces and culturally relevant activities. Participants will have the opportunity to express themselves, develop leadership skills, and foster relationships with peers and positive adult mentors.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Northern Community Radio, Inc.
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,000

This education project will continue building the next generation of conservationists in Minnesota by engaging youths and adults in science and outdoor learning through radio, podcasts, newsletters and schoolyard exploration.

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
City of Shakopee
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$336,406
Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$168,000

To hire qualified consultants to develop schematic designs for the Shakopee Riverfront Cultural Trail.

Scott
Recipient
City of Shakopee
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,500

To hire a qualified consultant to complete a context study of all NRHP and eligible properties in the Shakopee Historic District.

Scott
Recipient
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community

Objective 1: Software Development i. Activity 1.1: Create a Dakota language app ii. Activity 1.2: Create a keyboard for phones and computers Objective 2: Meet with Language Consultant(s) i. Activity 2.1: Lessons with an elder/language speaker ii. Activity 2.2: Consultation with an elder Objective 3: Curriculum Development i. Activity 3.1: Meet with developers ii. Activity 3.2: Create a language textbook

Scott
Recipient
Shakopee, City of
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,797
Fund Source

The weather station portion of the project is to increase the accuracy of weather and road condition data to further refine the Chloride Use/treatment of Shakopee roads. Real-time information from a RWIS station can be used to adjust application settings. Approximately 39 tons (78,000) pounds of salt are used in each event. The city averages 30 events each winter. The City of Eden Prairie has similar weather stations and estimates a 5%-10% reduction in salt use.

Scott
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,150,000
Fund Source

This Phase 8 request funds Ducks Unlimited’s prairie land acquisition and restoration program. DU will acquire 560 acres of land containing drained wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of SW Minnesota for restoration and transfer to the Minnesota DNR for inclusion in the state WMA system. This land acquisition and restoration program focuses on restoring cropland with wetlands along shallow lakes and adjoining WMAs containing large wetlands to help restore prairie wetland habitat complexes for breeding ducks and other wildlife.

Big Stone
Cottonwood
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lyon
Martin
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Redwood
Sibley
Swift
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,581,000
Fund Source

This Phase 10 request funds Ducks Unlimited's prairie wetland acquisition and restoration program. DU will acquire and restore 660 acres of prairie land containing wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of SW Minnesota for transfer to the Minnesota DNR for inclusion in the state WMA system. This land acquisition and restoration program focuses on restoring cropland with drained wetlands along shallow lakes and adjoining WMAs to help restore prairie wetland habitat complexes for breeding ducks and other wildlife.

Big Stone
Clay
Cottonwood
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Redwood
Sibley
Swift
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,608,000
Fund Source

This is Phase 9 of Ducks Unlimited's wetland and prairie acquisition and restoration program. DU will acquire and restore 516 acres of land containing drained wetlands in SW Minnesota's Prairie Pothole Region for restoration and transfer to the Minnesota DNR for inclusion in the state WMA system. This land acquisition and restoration program focuses on restoring cropland with drained wetlands along shallow lakes and adjoining WMAs to help restore prairie wetland habitat complexes for breeding ducks and other wildlife.

Big Stone
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Murray
Redwood
Redwood