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37239 Results for
Recipient
Heron Lake Watershed District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,643
Fund Source
The goal of this project is to establish a framework that the local government can use to guide their involvement as the WFDMR Watershed Project progresses over the next four years. This will enhance the success of the overarching goal of providing a framework for which the local government and watershed organizations can engage the public in a manner that will lead to water quality improvement. This will result in strategies to protect or restore the waters in this watershed.
Jackson
Martin
Recipient
West Concord Historical Society
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Dodge
Recipient
The Bakken Museum
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,980
Hennepin
Recipient
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,540

Fourteen oral history interviews were conducted with people knowledgeable about the establishment of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD), early conditions and relevant local environmental issues of the early 1970’s.

St. Louis
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To develop and install an exhibit on the history of alcohol in Clay County.
Clay
Recipient
MN Land Trust
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,786,000
Fund Source

Phase 3 of the Wetland Habitat Protection and Restoration Program, will result in the protection of 646 acres of high priority wetland habitat complexes in Minnesota’s Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition areas by securing permanent conservation easements within scientifically prioritized habitat complexes. The Minnesota Land Trust will use its innovative landowner bid model to maximize conservation benefit and financial leverage in protection project selection.

Big Stone
Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Swift
Recipient
MLT
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,129,000
Fund Source

Phase 4 of the Wetland Habitat Protection and Restoration Program will result in the protection of 800 acres of high priority wetland habitat complexes in Minnesota’s Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition areas by securing permanent conservation easements within scientifically prioritized habitat complexes. The Minnesota Land Trust will use its innovative landowner bid model to maximize conservation benefit and financial leverage in protection project selection.

Clay
Otter Tail
Pope
Recipient
MLT
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,088,000
Fund Source

Phase 6 of the Wetland Habitat Protection and Restoration Program will result in the protection of 1,213 acres of high priority wetland habitat complexes in Minnesota's Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition areas by securing permanent conservation easements within scientifically prioritized habitat complexes. The Minnesota Land Trust will use its innovative market-based landowner bid model to maximize conservation benefit and financial leverage in protection project selection.

Big Stone
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Otter Tail
Pope
Stevens
Wilkin
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

This project will apply science to identify viable and priority wetland restorations and rehabilitations that will deliver sustainable water quality benefit, along with flood storage and habitat benefits. Decision tools will be developed to assist with selection of restoration projects.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,683,000
Fund Source

Phase 5 of the Wetland Habitat Protection and Restoration Program will result in the protection of 1,040 acres of high priority wetland habitat complexes in Minnesota's Prairie and Forest-Prairie Transition areas by securing permanent conservation easements within scientifically prioritized habitat complexes. The Minnesota Land Trust will use its innovative market-based landowner bid model to maximize conservation benefit and financial leverage in protection project selection.

Grant
Otter Tail
Pope
Pope
Recipient
MN Land Trust
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,980,000
Fund Source

Fourteen conservation easements were completed by this program resulting in the protection of 1,962 acres of high quality wetland and associated upland habitat complexes and 78,596 feet (approximately 15 miles) of shoreland along priority lakes and rivers in west-central Minnesota. This program exceeded by 862 acres the amount proposed for the grant. Total leverage through donated easements by landowners is estimated at $1,209,700, all in excess of that proposed.

Douglas
Meeker
Otter Tail
Pope
Todd
Recipient
Minnestoa Land Trust
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,629,000
Fund Source

Protect 750 acres of high priority wetland habitat complexes in Minnesota’s Prairie/Forest-Prairie areas by securing permanent conservation easements within scientifically prioritized complexes using an innovative project ranking and payment system to maximize conservation benefit and financial leverage.

Otter Tail
Stearns
Todd
Recipient
Pioneer-Sarah Creek WMC
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405,000
Fund Source

Whaletail Lake (MDNR 27-018400) is located within the jurisdictional boundaries of Pioneer-Sarah Creek Watershed Management Commission (PSCWMC). The lake is considered having two distinct basins relative to the Minnesota water quality nutrient standards with the South basin (MDNR 27-018402) classified as a deep lake (156 acres; max depth 23 feet; & 66% littoral) and the North basin (MDNR 27-0180401) classified as a shallow lake (370 acres; max depth 10 feet; & 100% littoral).

Hennepin
Recipient
Becker County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
Becker
Recipient
Saint Paul Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 5 to 7 interviews the many roles advocates play in helping victims to become successful survivors and helping to move society toward the elimination of abuse altogether.

Ramsey
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified zooarchaeologist to analyze animal remains excavated from the Pedersen site (21LN2) on Lake Benton in Lincoln County, MN.

Lincoln
Recipient
U of MN, Duluth - NRRI
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$199,000

Examine the relationship between insect abundance, timing of insect availability and breeding success for multiple bird species across land-use intensities to develop comprehensive guidelines to conserve bird and insect diversity.

Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,351
What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones is a new traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution that reveals the creative genius behind some of the most enduringly popular cartoons and animated films of all time. Chuck Jones brought to animation an unparalleled talent for comic invention and a flair for creating animated characters with distinctive and often wildly eccentric personalities.
Statewide
Recipient
Wheel and Cog
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

Project, "It takes a Village", involves program development which would include community outreach development.

Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Clay
Dakota
Hennepin
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
McLeod
Meeker
Nicollet
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Waseca
Wright
Recipient
Wheel and Cog - Children's Museum of Hutchinson
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$115,000

Over the past five years, awareness of our organization has spread across the state. As a result, our attendance numbers have grown by 66%. We regularly hit max capacity, and the demand for outreach programs has gone up. Ex-S.T.R.E.A.M. expansion addresses three specific elements: 1) New space: Renting an additional 2,800 sq. ft of exhibit space to address spatial constraints.

Becker
Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Nicollet
Olmsted
Polk
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Washington
Becker
Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Nicollet
Olmsted
Polk
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Washington
Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,790
Fund Source
The project objective is to compute and publish mean daily-discharge data for the Rainy River at Wheelers Point.
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,420
Fund Source

This project will support the operation and maintenance of a stream gage that records stage, index-velocity and water temperature at Wheeler's Point on the Rainy River. The USGS will visit the stream gage approximately every six (6) weeks to perform maintenance and, as needed, to define the range of flows that occur.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Lanesboro Historical Preservation Association
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Fillmore
Recipient
Neighbors, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800
To hired a qualified consultant to research the history of Neighbors Inc.
Dakota
Recipient
Upper Minnesota River WD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
Fund Source
Big Stone

Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations is a traveling exhibition made in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in this place we now call Minnesota.

Recipient
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$96,500

The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council in collaboration with the Minnesota Humanities Center will extend and deepen the ongoing partnership around the Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations exhibition, supporting host sites through December 2012.

Statewide

Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations is a traveling exhibition made in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The exhibit explores relationships between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations and the U.S. government in this place we now call Minnesota.

Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$340,000
Fund Source
Wilkin
Recipient
Mississippi Headwaters Board
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

Project will purchase 13.8 acres and construct water quality, habitat, and recreational improvements to protect
the Mississippi River from contaminants in the 400-acre, highly impervious watershed in Baxter Minnesota.

Recipient
Wilkin Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$256,410
Fund Source

The Whiskey Creek project involves a coordinated and comprehensive approach to watershed management. This project consists of installing conservation practices that reduce sediment loading to Whiskey Creek while also providing flood reduction benefits to downstream landowners.

Wilkin
Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$320,000
Fund Source

The Wilkin Soil and Water Conservation District will partner with the Buffalo Red River Watershed District, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and landowners to install 59 side inlets to stabilize high priority gullies that are contributing sediment to Whiskey Creek. When these 59 gullies are stabilized, sediment loading to Whiskey Creek will be reduced by an estimated 1,006 tons per year and total phosphorus reduced by 794 pounds per year.

Wilkin
Recipient
Wilkin County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$103,100
Fund Source

The Whiskey Creek Watershed is the largest subwatershed in the Upper Red River of the North drainage, encompassing 165.63 square miles in Otter Tail and Wilkin Counties. This watershed contains the headwaters of the Red River of the North, which begins in far west central Wilkin County, an area of mixed residential and agricultural land use. The cities of Breckenridge, Minnesota and Wahpeton, North Dakota, as well as the small town of Kent are within the watershed.

Wilkin
Recipient
City of White Bear Lake
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the White Bear Lake Armory.

Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare HVAC design documents that will help preserve the White Bear Lake Armory.

Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,550

To hire qualified consultants to research and develop interpretive signage on the historic White Bear Town Hall.

Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,940
Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,300
Ramsey