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Recipient
Children's Discovery Museum
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,000

The Children's Discovery Museum's (CDM) new 3,000 piece Wizard of Oz (WOZ) collection will be properly archived, conservation materials purchased, and exhibit concept and design drawings completed. CDM facilitators and educators will travel to other children's museums in Minnesota for staff enrichment and professional development.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
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
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
Pine County Soil and Water Conservation DIstrict
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,326
Fund Source

The Pine County SWCD project will collect complete sets of water quality data for the Kettle River and some of its tributaries and also collect complete sets of water quality data for six area lakes (Oak, Dago, Rhine, Elbow, Rock, and Lake Eleven).

Aitkin
Carlton
Kanabec
Pine
Recipient
Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,730
Fund Source

This project will provide assessment data on the following five lakes: Venoah Lake, Spring Lake, Lac La Belle, Bear Lake, and Torch Light Lake (all within the Nemadji River Watershed and St. Louis River Watershed).

Carlton
Recipient
St. Louis River Citizen Action Committee
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,685
Fund Source

The St. Louis River Alliance will complete the data set for the water quality assessment of six target streams in the Lake Superior Basin. These streams are the Gooseberry River, Beaver River, Lester River, Big Sucker River, Split Rock River and Knife River. In addition, the St. Louis River Alliance will complete the data set for the water quality assessment of two non-target streams in the St. Louis River watershed. These two streams are Coffee Creek and Buckingham Creek. The St.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Lake
St. Louis
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
Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,162
Fund Source

This project will focus on collecting stream water quality data. Citizen volunteers and SWCD staff will complete water quality monitoring on two targeted stream sites in the watershed and eight additional sites including prospective MPCA biological assessment sites and DNR-Fisheries priority sites. This project will expand citizen participation into the assessment of streams in the watershed which are not included in the current TMDL study and expand data collection to a wider set of parameters.

Carlton
Pine
Recipient
Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,770
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to collect updated lake water quality data for the lakes in the Tamarack River chain to feed Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) modeling during the MPCA Watershed Monitoring program scheduled for 2015, and allow for better targeting of issues and lakes for implementation of clean water practices.

Carlton
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$425,000
Fund Source

This area of the Minnesota River Basin has been identified as contributing significant amounts of sediment to the watershed. The primary cause of the sediment is from gullies and ravines. This project by the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) continues efforts begun with FY2011 Clean Water Funds. Using data collected through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and LiDAR, GERBA will install best management practices to address severe ravines and gullies in targeted specific locations.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$378,673
Fund Source
Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$212,000
Fund Source

To be able to manage resources in the Blue Earth and Le Sueur Watersheds into the future and have a positive effect on water quality, resource managers need high quality accurate data to support decision making of best management practice (BMP) implementation. Digital elevation data is a valuable resource for modeling water flow, however in its current state it cannot represent water conveyance through features such as roadways. These flow barriers limit the accurate use of data for recently developed targeting tools identifying BMP suitability and effectiveness down to the field scale.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Martin
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
Kellen Witschen
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,240

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Laura Sellner
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,240

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Aitkin
Cook
Carlton
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Emily E. Krueger
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$936

Technology/Equipment Grant

Carlton
Recipient
Eric A. Soderberg
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,209

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Recipient
Craig J. Blacklock
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,059

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin
Ramsey
Chisago
Washington
Hennepin
Dakota
Recipient
Chris LeBlanc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$810

Technology/Equipment Grant

St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$874
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Itasca
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Dawn M. LaPointe
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$543
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Cook
Recipient
Mina W. Kaiser
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$635
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Eric M. Dubnicka
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$654
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
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
The Crunchy Bunch
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$582

Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist

St. Louis
Carlton
Ramsey
Hennepin
Winona
Recipient
Karen E. Savage-Blue
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
Jeffrey Ruprecht
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Carlton
Stearns
Hennepin
Morrison
Recipient
Shaunna M. Schanzenbach
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$596
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Recipient
Adam P. Swanson
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$297
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Cook
Carlton
Pine
Lake
Recipient
Gina Temple-Rhodes
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$498
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Delina L. White
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$358
Technology/Equipment Grant for Individual Artist
Itasca
St. Louis
Carlton
Recipient
Michael V. Scholtz AKA Mike Scholtz
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,260
Technology/Equipment Grant
St. Louis
Carlton
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
Fond du Lac Tribal College
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,101

Ojibwemotaadidaa Omaa Gidakiiminaang - will train five staff members in the language and practice of traditional activities associated with babies and parenting, led by knowledgeable elder-first speakers with years of experience. Staff members will spend a total of 16 days with four elder-first speakers engaged in language associated with pregnancy, birthing, newborns, infants, toddlers, cradleboard, moss bags, baby swing, and baby rattles. We will make audio-video recordings of these training sessions to have as a detailed record and reference tool.

Carlton
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
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA), a nine County/SWCD JPO has identified buffers as a basin priority. This initiative will work towards the goal of identifying all DNR protected shoreland in the GBERBA counties without a 50 foot vegetative buffer. Buffer strips protect surface and groundwater from a multitude of pollutants. During stormwater run off events buffers can remove between 50 and 100 percent of nutrients, pesticides, pathogens, and sediment. The estimated sediment reduction for this project is 756 tons per year prevented from entering our waters.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Martin County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$495,000
Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Waseca
Watonwan
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
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