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1852 Results for
Recipient
Otter Tail, East SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$706,488
Fund Source
Becker
Douglas
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Freshwater Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$59,000

Many lakes in Minnesota are classified as “impaired” for aquatic recreation and aquatic life as the result of nonpoint source pollution. These impairments can be addressed by the citizens that live by and have a vested interest in these water bodies, but there is often a lack of knowledge and resources to take effective action. The Freshwater Society is using this appropriation to train citizen groups in lake ecology and management in order to guide them in implementing water quality improvement projects for their local water bodies.

Becker
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Recipient
Roseau River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,250
Fund Source

The primary purpose of the project is to reduce soil loss from fields, improve the water quality of Roseau River Watershed District Ditch #3 by eliminating sediment deposition. This project will reduce maintenance costs along the ditch system by installing 29 sidewater inlets. The project will be a team effort with the Roseau County Soil and Water Conservation District and private landowners located along the ditch systems.

Roseau
Fund Source

Purchase and install fishing piers at priority lake and river sites in Region 1

Clearwater
Becker
Beltrami
Hubbard
Otter Tail
Wadena
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; with US Dept of Ag; Ducks Unlimited
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,020,500
Fund Source

The Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Wetlands Partnership Phase VI protected and restored 1,391 acres of previously drained wetlands and adjacent grasslands on 15 conservation easements.

Brown
Lyon
Mahnomen
Murray
Nobles
Redwood
Renville
Roseau
Swift
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
Minnesota's Historic Northwest
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,664
To hire a qualified historian to research and develop materials for traveling exhibits.
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Pennington
Recipient
Chad A. Filley
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600

Resiliency Grant

Isanti
Kanabec
Clay
Mille Lacs
Benton
Anoka
Sherburne
Chisago
Otter Tail
Becker
Koochiching
St. Louis
Ramsey
Ramsey
Clay
Kanabec
Chisago
Hennepin
Ramsey
Mille Lacs
Benton
Marshall
Anoka
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (American Indian Studies)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,675

To hire qualified professionals to produce materials on the Ojibwe language for public access.

Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Hubbard
Itasca
Marshall
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
Pelican River WD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$640,000
Fund Source

Project funding is requested to complete the second phase of an on-the-ground implementation project to restore function to the partially drained Rice Lake wetland, which will reduce the largest phosphorous tributary loading source to downstream Detroit Lake, a high value recreational lake. This wetland restoration nutrient reduction project was broken up into two (2) construction phases due to cost constraints, with the Phase 1- Upper Pool Restoration Area completed in November 2021 using a Clean Water Fund Grant (C21-4482).

Becker
Recipient
Pelican River WD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$830,108
Fund Source
Becker
Recipient
Pelican River Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Rice Lake Wetland Nutrient Reduction Project will provide nutrient reductions to downstream recreational water bodies by restoring the Rice Lake Wetland from its current area of 434 acres to pre-ditched water levels of approximately 896 acres.

Becker
Recipient
BWSR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,808,000
Fund Source

Under the CREP partnership with USDA, 71 easements were recorded on a total of 4,365 acres to restore previously drained wetlands and adjacent uplands. The easements were accomplished with local implementation done by SWCD, NRCS and FSA staff within the 54 county CREP area and leveraged federal funds for both landowner payments and cost share for conservation practice installation.

Becker
Blue Earth
Carver
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mower
Nicollet
Otter Tail
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rock
Sibley
Stearns
Wilkin
Recipient
BWSR
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,747,000
Fund Source

Using the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) program, this project addresses the potential loss of grassland habitats from conversion to cropland and accelerates grassland protection efforts not covered by other programs. Working in coordination with 11 Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan Local Technical Teams (LTTs), and 64 local Soil & Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) this proposal will enroll 490 RIM acres (approximately 7 easements), focusing on Minnesota Prairie Plan identified landscapes.

Becker
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
BWSR
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,276,000
Fund Source

Using the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) program, this project addressed the potential loss of grassland habitats from conversion to cropland and accelerated 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 completed 7 RIM conservation easements permanently protecting 617 acres of grassland habitat, exceeding the accomplishment plan goal by 23%.

Becker
Cottonwood
Mahnomen
Otter Tail
Recipient
BWSR
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,536,000
Fund Source

Using the Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) program, this project addresses the potential loss of grassland habitats from conversion to cropland and accelerates grassland protection efforts not covered by other programs. Working in coordination with 11 established Prairie Conservation Plan Local Technical Teams (LTTs), and local SWCDs this proposal will enroll 936 RIM acres (approximately 12 easements), focusing on Minnesota Prairie Plan identified landscapes.

Becker
Jackson
Lyon
Meeker
Murray
Rock
Traverse
Watonwan
Recipient
BWSR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,292,600
Fund Source

The Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Wetlands Partnership Phase V protected and restored 2,041 acres of previously drained wetlands and adjacent native grasslands on 23 conservation easements. All easements have been recorded. $35,000 of funds from other sources were also used.  

Becker
Blue Earth
Clay
Freeborn
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Redwood
Stevens
Todd
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
Roseau River WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,600
Fund Source
Roseau
Recipient
MN DNR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$65,000
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To increase diversity of demonstrations in Roseau County Fair’s Cultural Heritage Building by adding a portable sound system and bleachers.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,750

To create an area dedicated to arts, cultural heritage, and MN history exhibits at the Roseau County Fair. The display will rotate annually; for 2012, the Roseau County Historical Society will display pictures and video of the 2002 flood in Roseau County, and displays of old washing machines and saws used by the logging industry.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,468

To record 13 interviews with Korean and Vietnam veterans from Roseau County

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau Soil and Water Conservation District
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,555
Fund Source

The Lake of the Woods Watershed Assessment will include the waters of Warroad River and Willow River in Roseau County where sites are located in the lower reaches of each surface water system. This assessment focuses on collection of water chemistry and field parameters at four sites.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau River Watershed District
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,036,000
Fund Source

Over a century ago, the Roseau River in the northwestern corner of Roseau County was channelized by the State with the establishment of State Ditch 51. The Roseau River Watershed District and Minnesota DNR, through multiple phases, will cooperatively restore a total of 13.6 miles of river channel, adding 366 acres of high-quality large river habitat within the Roseau River WMA and enhancing the river's riparian habitat corridor. This project is the first phase and will begin progress towards restoring the Roseau River.

Roseau
Recipient
City of Roseau
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,798
Statewide
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,363
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau River Watershed District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$83,485
Fund Source

Phase 1 of the Roseau River Watershed Restaration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project will focus on planning and coordination among project partners, creating a civic engagement strategic plan, holding a watershed kick-off meeting, gathering and summarizing available watershed information and data, and developing a data gap monitoring plan.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau Soil and Water Conservation District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,872
Fund Source

The Roseau River Watershed Assessment will include the waters of the Roseau River, Sprague Creek, Hay Creek and Hayes Lake. All of the monitoring sites, except one, are located in Roseau County, with the exception being located in Kittson County. This assessment focuses on collection of water chemistry and field parameters at one site on Hayes Lake and seven key sites on the Roseau River, which have been identified by MPCA. These sites are located in the lower reaches of each surface water system.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau River Watershed District
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,999
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
Fund Source

This is the second phase of the Roseau River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) project, which includes: developing the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study, pollutant load allocations, watershed restoration and protection strategies, and conducting civic engagement.

Kittson
Roseau
Recipient
RESPEC
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,999
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate and validate a watershed model using Hydologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) for the Roseau River Watershed.

Beltrami
Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Marshall
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau River WD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$111,800
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop a Roseau Lake Water Quality Improvement Report that will include a prioritized, targeted, and measurable implementation plan that will improve water quality in the Roseau Lake watershed. The project will result in development of site specific implementation actions through use of the Prioritize, Targeting, and Measuring Application (PTMApp) and the Drained Wetland Basin Inventory terrain analysis methods.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau County Historical Society
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,599
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau River WD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,054,000
Fund Source

This multi-purpose project will partially restore a large drained lake, restore and reclaim stream reaches, provide water level management capacity to substantially improve wildlife habitat conditions and provide flood damage reduction benefits, and will contribute to water quality improvements in the Roseau River.

Roseau
Recipient
DNR with Roseau River Watershed District
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,763,000
Fund Source

255 acres were acquired in 2021 using OHF funding. These are acres allowed the dike to be aligned with the beach ridge of the lake.
Construction of Phase 1 (see map) was initiated in September 2023. The northwest embankment was built and a weir steering the main flow of the Roseau River into a natural oxbow was installed. A water control structure (on Pine Creek) and finishing work on the dike will be completed this year.

Roseau
Recipient
Roseau River WD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,010
Fund Source
Roseau
Recipient
Rainy Lake Community Orchestra
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,344

Rural and Community Art Project Grant

Koochiching
Roseau
Lake of the Woods
Itasca
St. Louis
Stearns
Rice
Dakota
Recipient
Ely Folk School
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,246

Rural and Community Art Project Grant

St. Louis
Lake
Becker
Mahnomen
Clearwater