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2636 Results for
Recipient
Cedar River Watershed District
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,842
Fund Source

The overall opportunity for the Dobbins Creek Project is to combine a robust Best Management Practice (BMP) implementation effort with ongoing and sustainable monitoring and performance evaluation elements. This collaborative approach will mean that the Dobbins Creek Project’s goals are met, and that information is made available to improve the conditions over the entire Cedar River watershed. 2024 monitoring activities for this grant will include sediment, bacteria, continuous turbidity, aquatic bugs, and fish monitoring.

Mower
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$238,864
Fund Source

The karst topography of southeast Minnesota increases the possibility of drinking water supplies becoming contaminated with high concentrations of nitrates. To address this risk in the region, there needs to be an increase in the use of nitrogen best management practices and agronomic rates of nitrogen need to be fine-tuned to balance production with environmental degradation. In addition, potential point sources of nutrient contamination in groundwater need to be addressed wherever possible. This project will have three components that will address these needs.

Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$269,356
Fund Source

This project will provide cost-share funds to landowners in vulnerable groundwater areas for the incorporation of cover crops in their crop rotation and to provide education related to nitrogen BMPs through field trials and Nutrient Management Plans. An anticipated 100 producers in highly vulnerable areas, will plant 3,000 acres of cover crops resulting in preventing potentially 19,800 pounds of nitrate from leaching into groundwater.

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Forewarned is Forearmed: Our goal is to protect the newly described MN DNR native bees from invasive virus-derived diseases and population declines.

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
Cass County Environmental Services
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,680
Fund Source

This proposal will further Cass County's goal of having inspection records for all SSTS systems throughout the county. This project will focus on septic systems in East and West Sylvan Townships. These urbanized townships are located within 2-8 miles of the cities of Brainerd-Baxter and are adjacent to the Crow Wing River near its confluence with the Mississippi River.

Cass
Recipient
U of MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$636,000

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has been decimating ash throughout the Great Lake States and is currently advancing into Minnesota, threatening the future of the ash forests that occur across much of the state. Of particular concern is the impact EAB will have on the ecology and functioning of black ash swamps, which cover over one million acres in Minnesota and represent the state’s most common ash forest type. Black ash trees grow and thrive in swamps and occupy a unique wet niche where few other tree species grow.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pine
Roseau
St. Louis
Stearns
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ECRAC ACHF Grant for Organizations

Kanabec
Pine
Isanti
Chisago
Mille Lacs
Faribault
Stearns
Beltrami
Le Sueur
Rice
Clay
Cook
Blue Earth
Hubbard
Dodge
Todd
Sherburne
St. Louis
Olmsted
Wright
Polk
Benton
Cass
Goodhue
Steele
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$153,500

The Why Treaties Matter exhibit made possible by previous Legacy funding explores the relationships between Minnesota's Dakota and Ojibwe tribes and the United States Government. The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Humanities Center will take the work and impact of the exhibit deeper by creating a curriculum to complement the exhibit.

Beltrami
Cass
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Hormel Historic Home
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,620

To survey educators and assess local needs for on-site or classroom education units.

Mower
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,272
Improving the educational achievement of Minnesota's students is a strategic priority for MNHS. The Educational Achievement initiative allows MNHS to create partnerships with three school districts--one rural, one suburban and one urban--and evaluate how a variety of educational programs measurably improve student achievement across multiple grade levels over multiple years.
Ramsey
Cass
Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,213
Partners: Northland Schools, Remer, and Washington Technology Magnet School, St. Paul Improving the educational achievement of Minnesota's students is a strategic priority for MNHS. The Educational Achievement initiative allows MNHS to create partnerships with two school districts
Ramsey
Cass
Recipient
Minnesota Native Landscapes
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,000

This research will analyze the effects of sheep grazing and mowing on the vegetation of solar sites that have been managed for pollinator habitat

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
Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Hanna L. Bartels
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,310

Emerging Artist

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Jennifer J. Jesseph
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500

Emerging Artist

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Paul V. LeDuc
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Emerging Artist

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Mark R. Hansen
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Emerging Artist

Fillmore
Freeborn
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Carley A. McHenry
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Emerging Artist

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,071,000

2024 Emerging Issues

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
Kim Zabel
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325
Emerging Artist
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Spencer R. Johannes
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

Emerging Artist Grant

Mower
Mower
Recipient
Jesse F. Dermody
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Emergency Working Artist Project Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Carlton
Pine
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Cass
Hubbard
Beltrami
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Pennington
Wadena
Becker
Clay
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Sherburne
Wright
Carver
Dakota
Goodhue
Wabasha
Winona
Olmsted
Recipient
Center for Energy and Environment
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000,000

Increasing energy conservation and efficiency in residences can play a significant role in Minnesota's goals for energy savings and carbon emissions reductions. The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE), a Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization, is using this appropriation to develop and implement innovative residential energy efficiency programs. Programs will be demonstrated in eight cities: Apple Valley, Austin, Duluth, Minneapolis, Owatonna, Park Rapids, Rochester, and St. Paul.

Dakota
Hennepin
Mower
Olmsted
Ramsey
Steele
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$336,000

Minnesota has 9.5 million acres of public forest lands that play an important role in sustaining Minnesota’s environment and economy. The policies and programs used by public timber sale programs can impact post-harvest ecological conditions and have pronounced effects on the composition, structure, and productivity of the forest in the future. Additionally, timber harvesting revenues play an important role in economic activity, employment, and tax revenue.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$190,000

Over 527,000 acres of unmanaged woodlands are being used for livestock grazing throughout Minnesota. Managing these grazed woodlands based on the use of best management practices can provide environmental and economic opportunities, including improved water quality, maximized forage production, and higher-quality timber. The best management practices involved are commonly used in other parts of the country with other types of ecosystems, but have not been widely adopted in Minnesota due to a lack of knowledge and experience with implementing them within the ecosystems of Minnesota.

Beltrami
Benton
Carver
Cass
Crow Wing
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wadena
Wright
Recipient
U of MN
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$553,000

We will generate genome sequences of bacteria growing in wastewater treatment bioreactors, allowing us to improve phosphorus and nitrogen removal from wastewater in Minnesota and to discover novel pharmaceutical compounds.

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
Pheasants Forever
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,772,000
Fund Source

6,870 acres of grassland and wetland habitat will be enhanced or restored through this proposal to benefit upland dependent species on Minnesota lands open to public hunting. These include Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA), and National Wildlife Refuges (NWR). We will accomplish this by working with our partners to follow best practices to conduct wetland restorations, conservation grazing, invasive tree removal, prescribed fire, and diversity seeding in the prairie, forest/prairie transition, and metro regions.

Anoka
Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
PF
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,902,000
Fund Source

In this phase of the Enhanced Public Lands - Grassland program, Pheasants Forever (PF) will enhance or restore 4,000 acres of upland and wetland habitat. The goal of this program is to improve habitat on existing Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs), and National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) that are open to public hunting. PF does this by working with agency partners to develop restoration and enhancement plans and hiring local, private contractors to complete work.

Anoka
Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Murray
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,454

Equipment and Facilities Improvement

McLeod
Meeker
Sibley
Wright
Nicollet
Kandiyohi
Redwood
Stearns
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Scott
Dakota
Le Sueur
Renville
Cass
Cass
Todd
Douglas
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Carver
Scott
Dakota
St. Louis
Wadena
Pine
Chisago
Recipient
Lake Benton Opera House, Inc.
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Equipment and Facilities Improvement

Lincoln
Lyon
Pipestone
Carver
Murray
Norman
Beltrami
Renville
Hennepin
Mower
Rock
Ramsey
Yellow Medicine
Redwood
Scott
Dakota
Rice
Freeborn
Cottonwood
Stearns
Martin
Recipient
Julie A. Johnston
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Established Artist

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Susan K. Waughtal
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Established Artist

Beltrami
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Houston
Itasca
Lake of the Woods
Mower
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Lane M. Powell
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Judith A. Saye-Willis
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Mower
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Waseca
Dakota
Scott
Stearns
Blue Earth
Nicollet
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Jamie R. Schell
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Anoka
Cass
Cass
Isanti
Fillmore
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Goodhue
Olmsted
Ramsey
Winona
Recipient
Frederick D. Somers
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Le Sueur
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Joan J. Sween
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
Established Artist
Fillmore
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
U of MN - MN Geological Survey
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$115,000
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Morrison
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
MN DNR
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,162,000

Expand fishing opportunities in urban areas, teach more kids and families how to fish, and inventory and inform the public about safe and legal shore fishing sites throughout 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