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Recipient
Stearns County
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,212,865
Fund Source

Per the CWMP (pgs. 3-5 through 3-6), the issues Altered Hydrology and Excessive Nutrients and Sediment are top priority issues/concerns to be addressed. During development of this work plan, the Implementation Team added the issue/concern High Water Quality Lakes as a secondary priority for this work plan (13 lakes - CWMP figure 4-9), noting it is closely related, often overlaps, there are multiple benefits to be gained, and there is strong local desire to protect these lakes.

Douglas
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Sauk River WD; Pheasants Forever; MLT
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,091,000
Fund Source

This program permanently protects, restores, and enhances 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 approximately 500 acres of high priority habitat in Minnesota's Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition Area. We will restore/enhance approximately 74 acres of wetlands and accompanying uplands, creating vital habitat for waterfowl and populations of Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN).

Douglas
Pope
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Lake City Public Schools
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Goodhue
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Saint Charles Elementary School
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

School Residency

Winona
Recipient
Dover-Eyota Public Schools AKA Dover-Eyota High School
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Lewiston-Altura Public Schools
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Winona
Recipient
Mayo High School
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Dodge
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
John Marshall High School
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Saint Charles Public Schools AKA Independent School District 858
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Fillmore
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Winona Area Public Schools
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

School Residency

Winona
Recipient
Winona Area Public Schools
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

School Residency

Winona
Recipient
La Crescent-Hokah Public Schools
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600

School Residency

Houston
Winona
Recipient
Lewiston-Altura Public Schools
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700

School Residency

Winona
Recipient
Winona Area Public Schools
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700

School Residency

Winona
Recipient
Winona State University AKA Winona Young Writers Conference
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700

School Residency

Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
La Crescent-Hokah Public Schools
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,005
School Residency
Houston
Winona
Recipient
Red Wing High School
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010
School Residency
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Ridgeway Community School
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,710
School Residency
Houston
Winona
Recipient
Winona Area Public Schools AKA Winona Senior High School
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010
School Residency
Winona
Recipient
Winona Area Public Schools AKA Winona Senior High School
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010
School Residency
Winona
Recipient
Winona State University AKA Winona Young Writers Conference
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010
School Residency
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Caledonia Area Public Schools AKA Caledonia Public Schools
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

School Residency Grants

Fillmore
Houston
Olmsted
Winona
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
Multiple public water systems
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$113,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota’s invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.

Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Hennepin
Lyon
McLeod
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Swift
Todd
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
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
Winona County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
Winona
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,750,000
Fund Source

This Phase 6 request for Ducks Unlimited's land protection and restoration program will acquire and restore 600 acres of prairie land on shallow lakes and prairie land with restorable wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of SW Minnesota for transfer to the Minnesota DNR for inclusion in the state Wildlife Management Area system. This land acquisition and restoration work will focus on land that buffers shallow lakes and provides breeding habitat for ducks and other prairie wildlife.

Clay
Lincoln
Pope
Sibley
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,759,000
Fund Source

Funding through this appropriation enhanced 4,745 acres of wetland habitat. Four wetland/shallow lake infrastructure projects were competed that enhanced 1,020 acres and and another project restored 50 acres. Wetland management actions (wild rice seeding, a significant drawdown, and a major large prescribed burn) enhanced 1,997 acres. Work by the Region 3 Roving Habitat Crew enhanced 1,678 wetland acres through work on prescribed burns, drawdowns, herbicide applications, and removal of woody vegetation.

Aitkin
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Fillmore
Freeborn
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Rice
Scott
St. Louis
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

State leadership for the 4-H Shooting Sports & Wildlife Program, including staff and 4-H volunteer committee members, will provide a menu of equipment options for local programs to choose from as a means to build their Shooting Sports & Wildlife project. Local programs will submit a grant application justifying how the new equipment will help them build and grow their program, attract and engage new audiences, and provide sustainability in their local chapter.

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
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
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
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Chippewa River Watershed Project
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$271,073
Fund Source

The Chippewa River Watershed Project will work with local partners, such as Land Stewardship Project, soil and water conservation districts, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to restore water quality in Lake Gilchrist, Simon Lake, Lake Johanna and in Mud Creek, and to protect unimpaired water resources in the watershed. This will be done through implementation of Best Management Practices focusing on the reduction of phosphorous, sediment, and runoff in the landscape, primarily by increasing the landscape's ability to retain water.

Pope
Recipient
City of Peterson
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,550

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Lanesboro Barn Dance
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,305

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Houston
Winona
Recipient
Chatfield Center for the Arts, Inc.
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,550

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Ramsey
Sherburne
Wabasha
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Chatfield Brass Band
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,550

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Mainspring
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,600

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Winona
Recipient
Chatfield Brass Band
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Chatfield Center for the Arts, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Lake City Area Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Lanesboro Barn Dance
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
City of Peterson
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300

Small Towns/Rural Areas

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona