This monitoring work expands on previously established routine water quality and flow sampling to include extensive fish and aquatic invertebrate surveys. Subsequent steps include assessment of the monitoring data to determine impairments, identification of stressors that are causing impairments, development of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies using identification of pollutant sources using computer modeling and other techniques, civic engagement, and public education as approaches in progress towards water quality goals.
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.
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.
2010 Grant Activities
Recording of 1st speakers. Webmaster hired to maintain language website. Conduct two half day gatherings for 1st Generation speakers.
Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion Project provides a 3-hour-a-day preschool language immersion experience. It builds on the integral connections between culture, literacy, and educational attainment. The project partners with existing programs to provide fluent speakers and language curriculum.
Wild bees are important for their pollination services and for their contribution to species diversity; for example, many prairie-grassland plant species require pollinators for seed production. However, while the importance of plant-pollinator interactions is well recognized, there are large gaps in our knowledge of Minnesota’s wild bees. The only statewide list of bee species was published in 1919 and it reported only 88 species, whereas it is currently estimated that there are approximately 350-400 native bee species in the state.
This Phase III continuation of the Wild Rice Shoreland Protection project acquired 98 acres for Yaeger Lake Wildlife Management Area (total acquisition was 285 acres but a portion was funded with other LSOHC money, only the portion funded with this grant is reported here) and 14 RIM easements protecting 600 acres for a total of 698 acres of wild rice shoreland habitat in the Northern Forest Section. This exceeded this Phases overall goal by acres for RIM.
Assesss current data sources and preliminary information about the conditions in the watershed and present the information through bibliographies, abstracts and memos.
This project entailed reconstruction and resurfacing of 1.1 miles of the segment of the Willard Munger State Trail that spans the trail terminus to Grand Avenue in Duluth.
This project will produce a Winter Maintenance Assessment tool prototype that allows users to create a customized approach to modify their existing winter maintenance program that will reduce their road salt use. The tool will allow users to take inventory of their current practices and evaluate how they are doing today and where they have the most potential to reduce salt usage.
$530,500 of the allocated $600,000 was used to enhance 150 acres of Wirth Park habitat. This project included habitat enhancement of woodlands and wetlands involving invasive species removal and planting of native species. This project benefits animal species including the pileated woodpecker and the threatened Blanding’s turtle. Primary outcomes include better quality plant communities, reduced fragmentation, and higher functioning wetlands.
Wolves are a hot topic in Minnesota, with the public sharply divided on management issues such as wolf hunting. The complexity of the topic lends itself to a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation that is not always helpful to resolving the polarized debate.
This project will allow lake associations and other motivated groups to use their local landowner networks and site specific knowledge to effectively implement best management practices that fit within the greater context of Wright County's Water Management Plan.
Over the years, the landscape of the Yellow Medicine Watershed has changed through drainage and loss of wetland areas. The Soil and Water Conservation Districts of Lincoln, Lyon and Yellow Medicine counties work cooperatively with the Yellow Medicine River Watershed District to oversee implementation of conservation practices in this watershed. Based on previous Clean Water Partnership diagnostic studies, it is known the river is receiving an excessive loading of nutrients, phosphorus and suspended solids. These conditions have led to declining dissolved oxygen levels as a result.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
To provide select students in grades 7-12 in the nine-county region with the opportunity to study their chosen art with a practicing professional artist and to attend arts workshops classes or other special training opportunities.
