All Projects

Bunker Hills Regional Park, replace wave pool filtration system. Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Regional Park, design and reconstruct roads, campsites, utilities, landscaping.

To conduct research on the 21st century African American community in Minnesota.

To hire a qualified historian to research the history of special education teachers in Minnesota.

To restore the 1935 floor of the Litchfield Opera House as close as realistically possible to its original condition: with a finished and safe surface for public and catered events.

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

To hire qualified professionals to repair and restore windows in the Universal Laboratories Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Phalen Regional Park. Restore waterfall as a park amenity. Maintain landscape plantings, lighting, and other site amenities.

Sixteen more portraits of Minnesota governors will be cleaned and protected with the addition of high-quality, non-glare/UV filtering plexiglass. The portraits of Minnesota’s governors grace the halls of the Minnesota State Capitol and provide an important legacy of the state’s past and present leaders.

State law (M.L. 2011, First Special Session, Ch. 6) directs restoration evaluations to be conducted on habitat restoration projects completed with funds from the Parks and Trails Fund (M.S. 85.53). The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is responsible for convening a Restoration Evaluation Panel containing at least five technical experts who will evaluate a sample of up to 10 habitat restoration projects annually. The Panel will evaluate the restorations relative to the law, current science, stated goals and standards in the restoration plans, and applicable guidelines.

In the North Fork Crow River Watershed, land use is mainly row crop agriculture with an extensive drainage system. Many of the existing tile lines have open intakes that transport sediment and nutrients to open ditches that drain to the North Fork Crow River. The river flows into Rice Lake which has elevated phosphorus levels. Studies show a major source of phosphorus loading comes from animal manure. Field applied manure has potential to runoff to open tile intakes being a direct path to surface water.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The SRRWD has successfully acquired fee title to 257 acres of land that encompasses the headwaters of the Shell Rock River located at the Albert Lea Lake outlet. This 257 acre parcel will now be a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Aquatic Management Area (AMA) guided by an Aquatic Management Plan.

This program annually evaluates a sample of up to twenty Outdoor Heritage Fund habitat restoration projects, provides a report on the evaluations in accordance with state law and delivers communications on project outcomes and lessons learned in restoration practice. Accomplishments are summarized in the attached 2019 Annual Report. The 2019 report focuses specifically on stream restoration.

To engage children in various activities by providing marionette shows to teach the history of marionettes, and a spelling bee.

The purpose of this project is to increase awareness of environmental stewardship practices by providing six subgrants to local community partners. This program aims to engage the public, provide education on conservation practices and install up to eight conservation practices. This includes rain gardens, vegetative buffers and wetland restorations. Each subgrant will reduce the movement of sediment, nutrients and pollutants, retain water on the land and increase environmental awareness to the residents of Rice County.

This project will complete the final Implementation Plan, semi-annual and final reports and hold project meetings. The Implementation Plan will identify target areas and priorities for implementation strategies to improve water quality for Bluff Creek. This project will build the groundwork so Bluff Creek will meet water quality standards for aquatic life in the future.

To design, produce, and install interpretive signs for the Riley-Jacques Farmstead.

Utilizing the new CREP III partnership to secure permanent conservation easements, this Phase 7 continuation of the RIM Buffers Program will protect and restore riparian buffer areas, totaling 4,106 acres on approximately 244 easements. This Program will continue to utilize a science-based ranking and selection process and be implemented locally, working with SWCD, NRCS, and FSA staff in the 54 county CREP area. It is estimated that $1 of OHF will be leveraged with $1 of Clean Water Funds and at least $4 of Federal funds through CREP.

Under the CREP partnership with USDA, 38 easements were recorded on a total of 2,732 acres to restore previously drained wetlands and adjacent uplands. One easement is a flowage easement that was required to complete wetland restoration work on an adjacent

Acquire 20 acres that would provide an essential corridor between the original park and the recent expansion.

To compile a comprehensive baseline inventory that can be integrated in planning.

Develop parking area, rest room, bridge, observation deck, open play field, trails and horseback riding facilities.

to acquire 3 miles of the Rocori Trail, connecting the cities of Richmond and Cold Spring, and eventually connecting to the Glacial Lakes State Trail

To write and edit a manuscript of children's stories on the history of the Rondo Community in St. Paul.

Per Minnesota Law, the Minnesota Humanities Center administers the Arts and Cultural Heritage Rondo Commemorative Plaza grant. The Humanities Center uses a portion of the funds to provide grants administration, including overseeing the proposal process, agreement drafting, financial and program monitoring, and reporting.

This grant will fund an expected 44 projects in 4 subwatersheds (South Fork Root River, Crooked Creek, Rush-Pine and portions of the headwaters of the Middle and South Branch Root) and 2 DWSMAS (Chatfield and Utica). Projects include grassed waterways, WASCOBs, grade stabilization structures and cover crops, plus field walkovers, project development, and technical assistance. The anticipated sediment reduction from this work will be 2,285.5 tons, or 2.2% of the 10-year goal for the entire planning area.

The Root River Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) project will continue existing efforts to calculate seasonal pollutant loads for the Root River. The Fillmore Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will assist the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with water quality monitoring and pollutant load calculations for five subwatershed sites. Samples will be collected using procedures described in the WPLMN standard operating procedures.

To hire qualified technicians to upgrade the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system at St. Rose of Lima, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To produce the documents necessary to nominate and register the historic St. Rose of Lima Church to the National Register of Historic Places.

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.