All Projects

Acquire .9 acres

To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey of the area known as the Town of Hennepin.

To hire a qualified architect to develop architectural drawings for the Riley Bartholomew House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Phased design and construction of ADA access deficiencies throughout the Regional Park and Trail System that are identified in the Ramsey County Parks and Trails ADA Transition Plan including Design/engineering, for building and site improvements such as access improvements for walkways, hardware components, doors, window, restroom components, building interiors, utilities, stair and railings, sidewalk, trail, shelters, play elements, parking lots, grading, signs and site amenities

Continue Implementation of adopted park master plan: Complete Road & Utility Construction from the end of Phase II to the Harriet Island area (2,800 lineal feet). Lilydale hosts approximately 786,000 visits annually, of which approximately 10% are of Asian descent.

to construct a .3 mile section of trail and tunnel/underpass under State Highway 200/371 completing the Shingobee Connection Trail, which connects the Paul Bunyan and Heartland State Trails to the City of Walker

To conduct a basic processing project that will prepare archives collections for public access.

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the preservation of the Carnegie Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire qualified consultants to develop and install an exhibit on Minnesota author and artist Peter Rosendahl's comic strip "Han Ola og han Per."

To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum located at 2151 Lindbergh Drive South, Little Falls, MN .

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit design and development documents to enhance and broaden the George Daniels exhibit.

Phase 2 building and site improvements for design, construction, and contingencies of a new picnic shelter including shelter construction, site improvements, utility infrastructure improvements, stormwater management, bituminous trail connections, landscape restoration, play amenities, wayfinding, and site amenities that are tied to grant SG-12282.

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of African-Americans in Duluth.

Community engagement for Phase II Phalen China Garden. Engagement will be led by the City of Saint Paul Staff and a local artist who is a resident of Minnesota. The project will develop a Design Advisory Committee that could include members of the local Hmong community, Chinese community, Ward 1, Payne Phalen Planning District, Youth Commission, Hmong 18 Council, and local residents.

To augment a National Endowment for the Humanities exhibit at the county museum with mobile electronic access to the historic built environment

This project will fund the stream restoration of a failed, 30-year old sediment control structure in the Deer Creek subwatershed using natural channel design methods to restore the stream to a stable state. Since the dam breached an estimated 78 tons of sediment is transported annually to the turbidity-impaired Deer Creek.

Increases in crop prices have reduced the acreage of land in conservation set-aside programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program and other marginal land use. Significant conversion of grasslands to cultivated agricultural crops has increased the levels of runoff and sedimentation. Phase III of this project addresses the need to protect vulnerable sites by installing water and sediment basins. These basins are earthen embankments built to temporarily detain sediment-laden runoff, allowing sediment to settle out before runoff is discharged.

This project is Phase IV of work to install water and sediment basins located within Sand Hill Watershed. A water and sediment basin is an earthen embankment built so that sediment-laden runoff is temporarily detained, allowing sediment to settle out before runoff is discharge. These are installed on agricultural cropland where erosion exceeds the allowable soil rate. Minimum detention time to store water is 36 hours for a 10 year, 24 hour runoff event. Starting in 2010, the District received dollars to assist landowners with flood-related projects.

Initiate phase 2 improvement recommendations from the off-leash dog area master plan consisting of design/development of site infrastructure improvements, initiate construction on phase 2 items at off-leash dog areas in Battle Creek Regional Park, Bald Eagle-Otter Lake regional Park and Rice Creek North Regional Trail.

To hire a qualified consultant to write a feasibility study for the reuse of the 1889 Phelps Mill Store, Underwood, MN.

To hire qualified professionals to repair building elements on the Phelps Mill, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The most imminent threat to Phelps Mill, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is fire. If struck by lightning the wood frame building would be destroyed in minutes. Period photographs indicate that at least three lightning rods were on the mill as early as 1900. When the mill closed in 1939, the rods remained on the roof until 1965 when the county board purchased the site as a county park. Shortly thereafter, the rods were removed when the roof was repaired and shingles replaced.

Restoration of 28 acres of prairie and 20 acres of wetland along 3/4 miles of the Otter Tail River.

Provide professional development workshops at three Greater Minnesota locations for 60 teachers to use phenology education curriculum and community science resources, reaching >7,000 students in the first three years.