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Recipient
Tetra Tech
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,998
Fund Source

The Minnesota River Basin Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models simulate sediment erosion and transport, however these models periodically need to be adjusted to be consistent with the most recent sources of information regarding sediment distribution and loading rates. The goal of this project is to refine the sediment source partitioning and simulation in the Minnesota River basin using all relevant available sources of information.

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The Minnesota River Basin Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models, which simulate flow and pollutant transport, need to be refined to be consistent with the most recent external sources of land use, hydrologic response, and surface flow attributions. The primary goal of this work is to refine the hydrologic calibration in the Minnesota River basin.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Murray
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Waseca
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
BWSR
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,358,000
Fund Source

Funds for RIM conservation easements build on Clean Water Fund (CWF) investments for restoration and protection projects that "stack" habitat and clean water benefits. Projects will be identified in watershed plans developed through BWSR's One Watershed, One Plan program, in which local governments strategically set priorities for clean water and habitat, target implementation, and set measurable goals. BWSR currently distributes CWF dollars to partnerships with approved plans for water quality projects.

Becker
Crow Wing
Douglas
Murray
Nobles
Recipient
City of Blackduck
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Minnesota and International Railroad Trestle.
Beltrami
Recipient
The Works Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$321,964

The Works Museum will design, fabricate, and install a new exhibit with partners from Minnesota's East African, Hmong, and Latinx communities that forwards elementary education goals and celebrates Minnesota's rich cultural diversity.

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Mille Lacs
Nicollet
Olmsted
Olmsted
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Washington
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$933,000

We will assess movements, survival, and causes of mortality of Minnesota elk while developing a non-invasive, safer method to estimate population size. This information is important for long-term management efforts.

Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogenbest management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators onissues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigationscheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reducenitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Kairos Alive!
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,933

The Kairos Alive! Cultural Wisdom Immersion and Sharing Project collaborates with Centro Tyrone Guzman, Augustana Open Circle, Walker West Music Academy and outstate Developmental Achievement Centers to explore and exchange joyful cultural meaning through music, dance, song and story via 2-way Zoom webcast. Project explores cultural heritage and identity expression, and how it relates to the universality of human experience, in an environment of creative safety and intercultural exchange.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Nobles
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stearns
Swift
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Clay
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lake
Mille Lacs
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Polk
Ramsey
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wabasha
Watonwan
Recipient
Kairos Alive!
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,932

This project collaborates with 1) Minneapolis Hawthorne Neighborhood Council (multi-cultural/intergenerational); 2) Minnesota Independence College and Community (MICC), Richfield (neuro-divergent young adults); 3) an established network of 20+ senior centers and organizations serving people with developmental disabilities statewide (multi-cultural and intergenerational), such as Centro Tyrone Guzman (Latinx), Ecumen Prairie Lodge, Brooklyn Park, Wabasha County Developmental Achievement Center, Wabasha, and Adult Day Services, Bemidji; 4) community collaborations in Bemidji and New Ulm servi

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Cottonwood
Hennepin
Koochiching
Lake
Mille Lacs
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Ramsey
Stevens
Swift
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Douglas County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$337,000
Fund Source

Acquire approximately 84.4-acre addition to existing 305-acre regional park.

Douglas
Recipient
Douglas County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$261,475
Fund Source

Multi-use trails including 640 feet of elevated boardwalk, new park entrance including 1800 feet of entrance road.

Douglas
Recipient
Kensington Area Heritage Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system in preparation for better control of the Kensington Area Heritage Society museum environment.
Douglas
Grant
Pope
Stevens
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,874
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,739

Minnesota's twelve regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant. Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812

Minnesota's twelve regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant. Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$186,486
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$203,268

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,067
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,995

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,042
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,042

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$91,281

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.2 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$117,738
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$117,738

Minnesota's twelve regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Beltrami
Cass
Cass
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Douglas County Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Douglas
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$683,867
Fund Source
Douglas
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$287,850
Fund Source
Douglas
Recipient
Beltrami SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$156,000
Fund Source
Beltrami
Recipient
Stevens Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,986
Fund Source

This project will complete data collection on 11 lakes over a 2 year period in the Pomme de Terre Watershed. The data collected will be be used in the Major Watershed Project proposed for this watershed.

Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000
Fund Source

As lake-focused development continues these high quality waters will see increasing amounts of land use change. The State Demographer projects that the targeted lake catchments will see population increases of 25-62% within 20 years. Isolating these contributing areas permits the Lake Protection Analysis project to perform multiple GIS analyses to accurately inform water quality discussions. The final framework will allow local water managers to prioritize across their water bodies, target activities to specific subsheds, and develop measurable goals.

Crow Wing
Douglas
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$238,000
Fund Source

Enhancement of existing overnight camping facilities by providing rustic cabins

Beltrami
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,134
Fund Source

This project will provide monitoring of four of the major watersheds (8-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes) in the western part of the Rainy River Basin. Staff from the Lake of the Woods SWCD will conduct water quality sampling, review, manage and provide collected data to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).

Beltrami
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
AECOM, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source

Phase 4 of the Lake Winona Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) project will finalize the draft Lake Winona TMDL, dated November 2009, by completing additional data analysis, lake quality modeling, updating the TMDL report, and supporting the public involvement process.

Cass
Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Recipient
Douglas County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$375,000
Fund Source

Acquire 26-acres with 8,000 feet of lake shore located 2 miles west of the city of Alexandria. This will be the first phase of a larger acquisition totaling 136 acres. The property is bisected by the Central Lakes Trail and contains unimproved uplands, high hills, scenic vistas, small wood lots and wetlands.

Douglas
Recipient
Douglas County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

Acquire approximately 40 acres to expand existing regional park.

Douglas
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$227,430
Fund Source

The Lake Ida and Ditch 23 Wetland Feasibility Project will investigate and review the phosphorus loading of Lake Ida and design a project to protect Lake Ida water quality. Lake Ida is a 'high quality, unimpaired lake at the highest risk of becoming impaired' according to MPCA's Lakes of Phosphorus Sensitivity Significance. With the County Ditch 23 inlet identified as a priority area to reduce phosphorous, a professional engineering firm will explore the best solution to reduce phosphorus.

Douglas
Fund Source

This project constructed a new group camp at Lake Bemidji State Park that features an area for tent camping, an area to accommodate RV units, a large fire ring, and a large screened picnic shelter equipped with electricity.

Beltrami
Recipient
Emmons & Oliver Resources (EOR)
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,993
Fund Source

Update previous draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) documents and modeling files with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) comments and site specific standards.

Douglas
Recipient
City of Bemidji
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650,000
Fund Source

After a century of industrial use, the project brought Lake Bemidji's South Shore to its original state. The city removed 1,144 tons of contaminated soil and sediment, 9,400 cubic yards of woody debris from the lake-bottom and planted native vegetation on the shoreline to restore and enhance aquatic habitat.

Beltrami
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$338,231
Fund Source
Douglas
Fund Source

At the LaSalle Lake SRA, this project constructed a day use area (parking, picnic shelter, restrooms, boardwalk to fishing pier), campground vault toilet, carry-in boat landing, and a pedestrian bridge that leads to other recreation features.

Beltrami
Recipient
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

Operational Budget Supplement for the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR).

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
Leaf Valley Township
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,269
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing subsurface sewage treatment systems

Douglas
Recipient
Otter Tail, East SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,112,800
Fund Source

Watershed based implementation funds will be used to target conservation practices utilizing the principles associated with Prioritize, Target and Measure as referenced in our Local Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan. The following are projects/practices, and their associated pollution reduction estimates, that are included in this budget request: (500 acres of Nonstructural BMPs) to protect/improve land management and reduce bacteria will reduce phosphorus by 65 lbs/yr, nitrogen by 520 lbs/yr, and sediment by 285 tons/yr.

Becker
Douglas
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Cass County (Environmental Services Department)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

This project supports the planning, coordination and civic engagement/outreach components of the Leech Lake River Major Watershed project. Phase 1 will focus towards the development of project teams, identifying stakeholders, developing an initial civic engagement strategic plan and reviewing current and past watershed project data. Phase II of this project will focus on source assessment, running of watershed modeling scenarios, lake protection planning, stressor identification and the continuation of the Civic Engagement components of the project.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard