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Recipient
Peter K. Pestalozzi
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$193
Quick Start Opportunity Grants
St. Louis
Winona
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Willmar Community Theatre, Inc AKA The Barn Theatre
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Quick Support for Organizations

Kandiyohi
Swift
Meeker
Renville
Redwood
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Pope
Stevens
Lyon
Stearns
Brown
Yellow Medicine
Yellow Medicine
Sibley
Sibley
Recipient
Pope Soil and Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,350
Fund Source

Lake Minnewaska, a highly used recreational lake, is the largest body of water in Pope County. While scientific studies show that the transparency in Lake Minnewaska has been increasing over the last 30 years, there are numerous ravines on the south shore of Lake Minnewaska that could threaten this trend. The erosion in these ravines is causing large amounts of sediment and phosphorus to be dumped directly into Lake Minnewaska. After a storm in 2011, many trees vegetating the ravines were blown down, ripping out the roots and further exposing the soil along these ravines.

Pope
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
Buffalo-Red River Watershed District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,860
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to improve understanding of primary productivity in the Red River and the diversity and population structure of the algal communities occurring along the river system. This will be accomplished through taxonomic identification of periphyton and phytoplankton assemblages necessary for characterizing responses to nutrient gradients along the Red River of the North.

Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Douglas
Grant
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
Stevens
Traverse
Wilkin
Recipient
Pope County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Inert museum storage was created for the ethnographically and historically significant Helbing Collection of American Indian Arts and Crafts as recommended in a museum assessment.

Pope
Recipient
Polish Cultural Institute
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,960
To improve collections care and management through proper storage.
Winona
Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,100
Partner Organizations: Winona County Historical Society and Theatre du Mississippiona Winona County Historical Society and Theatre du Mississippi will partner to produce a new interpretive program for the Historic William Bunnell House in 2015. They will conduct research to produce an hour-long script based on the lives of families who lived in the house and the period they lived there. This new program will create a purpose for a house museum which has been languishing.
Winona
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
BWSR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,895,000
Fund Source

The Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Reserve Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) Partnership will accelerate the restoration and protection of approximately 4,620 acres of previously drained wetlands and associated upland native grassland wildlife habitat complexes via perpetual conservation easements. The goal of the RIM-WRP Partnership is to achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, while optimizing wildlife habitat on every acre enrolled in the partnership.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clay
Freeborn
Grant
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Norman
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Rice
Recipient
Winona County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To provide a variety of programming at the Winona County Fair that preserves and promotes Minnesota's history and cultural heritage. Art demonstrations will feature painting, watercolor, drawing, oils, spinning, weaving, and quilting. Visitors will be able to view antique tractors and learn about their history and restoration process. Children can watch a marionette show and learn about ventriloquism. The fair will feature a bluegrass band and a dog sledding display.

Winona
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
SELCO Southeastern Libraries Cooperating
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,350

To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of the Labathe Family, a French-Indigenous family in Winona County.

Winona
Recipient
MN TU
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,486,000
Fund Source

Minnesota Trout Unlimited, the Minnesota Land Trust, and The Nature Conservancy will combine their expertise within 12 targeted watersheds to increase the resilience of remnant populations of brook trout unique to Southeast Minnesota. We will protect 535 acres and restore/enhance 95 acres of instream and adjacent upland habitats to address stream degradation (floodplains, gullies, slopes, and bluffs), slow runoff, increase infiltration, and keep aquatic habitat productive.

Fillmore
Houston
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
BWSR
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,233,000
Fund Source

Using the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) program, this project addressed the potential loss of grassland habitats from conversion to cropland and accelerate grassland protection efforts not covered by other programs. Focusing on Minnesota Prairie Plan-identified landscapes and working in coordination with established Prairie Conservation Plan Local Technical Teams (LTTs), this project fulfilled the accomplishment plan goal of enrolling 710 acres of grassland habitat in permanent conservation easements by completing more easements than estimated, for a total of 13 easements.

Becker
Cottonwood
Grant
Mahnomen
Murray
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Rock
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
Rollingstone Luxembourg Heritage Museum
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
Winona
Recipient
Rollingstone?Luxembourg?Heritage?Museum
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Winona
Recipient
Islamic Center of Winona
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$226,094

To hire qualified professionals to complete re-roofing and preventative masonry work on the Second National Bank, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Winona
Recipient
Islamic Center of Winona
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Winona
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,656
Fund Source

The Root (HUC 07040008) and Upper Iowa/Mississippi River – Reno (HUC 07060002 and 07060001) watershed Hydrologic Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) models currently simulate hydrologic and water quality processes through 2015. In order to support work to update the existing WRAPS report, the two HSPF models will be extended through 2021.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,877
Fund Source

The contractor will use the  Scenario Application Manager (SAM) tool to build water quality restoration scenarios for the Root River watershed using the Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model. The SAM tool simulates  total suspended solids (TSS) and nitrogen reductions based on implementation of various best management practices.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,469,595
Fund Source

This grant will fund about 80 project in six sub-watersheds (Headwaters of the Middle & South Branch, Money Creek, Headwaters of Upper Iowa River, Mill Creek, south Fork Root River, and Carey Creek). Projects to include grassed waterways, water and sediment control basins, grade stabilization structures, livestock waste projects, streambank projects and cover crops. Funding will also support staff time for project development and technical assistance for the cost-share projects.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Winona SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$851,301
Fund Source

This grant will fund an expected 44 projects in 4 subwatersheds (South Fork Root River, Crooked Creek, Rush-Pine and portions of the headwaters of the Middle and South Branch Root) and 2 DWSMAS (Chatfield and Utica). Projects include grassed waterways, WASCOBs, grade stabilization structures and cover crops, plus field walkovers, project development, and technical assistance. The anticipated sediment reduction from this work will be 2,285.5 tons, or 2.2% of the 10-year goal for the entire planning area.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Winona State University
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to assess the amount of land in the Root River watershed that is treated by structural best management practices (BMPs); more specifically, Water and Sediment Control Basins. The 2016 Root River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report recommended reducing sediment loss from upland areas and reducing nitrate loading to streams from runoff. Understanding the location and density of these BMPs will is important for targeting future watershed protection and restoration efforts.

Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy/MN Land Trust
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,644,600
Fund Source

The Nature Conservancy acquired in fee 3 properties that added 143 acres to the RJ Doer Memorial Hardwood Forest. The Minnesota Land Trust protected 3 properties with perpetual easements totaling 526 acres. The Nature Conservancy enhanced 396 acres of high priority habitat (bluff prairie and oak savanna) on existing state forest and Scientific and Natural Area lands, and an additional 35 acres on new fee acquisitions. 

Fillmore
Houston
Winona
Recipient
Fillmore County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$319,700
Fund Source

TMDL project in the Root River Watershed that will support surface water assessment, analysis of data, interpretation of southeast Minnesota's karst landscape, stressor identification, TMDL computation, source assessment, and implementation planning.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,582
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to complete the construction, calibration, and validation of an Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Minnesota portions of three watersheds: Root River, Upper Iowa, and Mississippi River-Reno.

Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Winona SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,469,595
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,478
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,521
Fund Source

This project will focus on monitoring & assessment, stressor ID assistance, problem investigation, watershed prioritization and targeting, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report development, Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report updates and continuing civic engagement for the Sauk River Watershed.

Douglas
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
RESPEC
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,891
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to compile the observed flow and water quality data and update the Sauk River Watershed HSPF model calibration through 2019. The Sauk River Watershed HSPF model simulates hydrology, sediment (sand, silt, and clay), temperature, phosphorus, nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, and chlorophyll a.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Sauk River WD, PF, MLT
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,034,000
Fund Source

This program will permanently protect, restore and enhance critical habitat within the Sauk River Watershed, which has experienced considerable habitat loss and is at high risk for more land conversion. Using conservation easements and fee land acquisition, we will protect approximately 660 acres of priority habitat in Minnesota's Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition Area. We will restore/enhance approximately 224 acres of wetlands and accompanying uplands to create habitat for waterfowl and populations of Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN).

Douglas
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Stearns County
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$832,550
Fund Source

The Sauk River's CWMP identifies altered hydrology and excessive sediment & nutrients as the top priority resource concerns to be addressed. Goals for each priority resource concern are found on pages 4-6 and 4-21 of the CWMP. To achieve these goals, The CWMP contains multiple prioritization schemes, on both a watershed-wide and watershed management unit basis, to achieve these goals - refer to pages 4-8 through 4-11 and 4-22 through 4-31 of the CWMP.

Douglas
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District, Pheasants Forever, to Minnesota Land Trust.
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,926,000
Fund Source

This project will permanently protect, restore and enhance critical habitat within the Sauk River Watershed, which has experienced considerable habitat loss and is at high risk for more land use conversion. Using conservation easements and fee land acquisition, we will protect 750 acres of high priority habitat in Minnesota's Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition Area and will restore/enhance approximately 66 acres of wetlands and accompanying uplands to create vital habitat for important waterfowl and Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) populations.

Douglas
Meeker
Pope
Pope
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,945
Fund Source

This work order will extend all of the timeseries in the Sauk River Watershed  Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model through 2019. The Sauk River Watershed HSPF model simulates hydrology, sediment (sand, silt, and clay), temperature, phosphorus, nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, and chlorophyll a.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$61,540
Fund Source

This project will complete an assessment of watershed lakes and streams. The assessment will include biological and stressor id analysis, which will support a summary report on lake conditions and protection strategies for lakes included in this watershed study.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$435,289
Fund Source

The Sauk River Stormwater Runoff Reduction and Riparian Restoration Project is a watershed-wide effort to reduce the amount of nutrients delivered by stormwater and bank erosion to area surface waters. Funds will be used to assist local schools and municipalities with their restoration project design, installation, and financing.

Douglas
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Pheasants Forever, MLT, Sauk River WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,946,000
Fund Source

Through the Sauk River Watershed Habitat Protection and Restoration program, the Partnership protected 726 acres (264 acres through fee simple acquisition and 462 acres through conservation easements). Additionally, the program restored/enhanced 780 acres of high priority habitat in the Sauk River Watershed. Overall, we achieved 111% of our land protection goal, 177% of our R/E acreage goal, and 397% of our proposed leverage goal. Our actions increased habitat connectivity, biodiversity, and landscape resilience.

Douglas
Pope
Stearns