All Projects

4966 Results for
Recipient
Carlton County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source

to rehabilitate the trestles on the Soo Line Trail in Moose Lake by replacing the decking and installing new steel post guard rails and chain link fencing

Recipient
BWSR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,895,000
Fund Source

The Reinvest in Minnesota (RIM) Reserve Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) Partnership will accelerate the restoration and protection of approximately 4,620 acres of previously drained wetlands and associated upland native grassland wildlife habitat complexes via perpetual conservation easements. The goal of the RIM-WRP Partnership is to achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, while optimizing wildlife habitat on every acre enrolled in the partnership.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clay
Freeborn
Grant
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Norman
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Rice
Recipient
Carver County Watershed Management Organization
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$127,551
Fund Source

The Reitz Lake restoration project began several years ago when water quality samples showed the lake was impaired. Carver County and residents around the lake took action and began to develop a plan (TMDL) to clean up Reitz Lake.Once the TMDL study and the associated implementation plan (which helps to target specific projects) were completed, funding was sought to target high priority projects around the Lake. First, direct untreated run-off from a farmed area of approximately 100 acres to the north of the lake will be slowed and filtered before it enters the lake.

Carver
Recipient
Scott County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,000
Fund Source

Spring Lake Regional Park. Remove Co. Rd. 81 and restore the former road bed, and develop an off-leash dog area.

Scott
Recipient
Anoka County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$622,000
Fund Source

Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve. Remove 2 failing ped bridges and construct two new pedestrian bridges.

Anoka
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,525,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,811,800
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,412,000
Fund Source

This program focuses on the rehabilitation or replacement of existing state trail bridges, including structural engineering inspections of all trail bridges . Of the more than 300 existing bridges on State Trails, the majority are wood or masonry former railroad structures of which more than 1/3 exceed 100 years old. Starting in fiscal year 2014, future PAT reporting will not separate bridges from trails outcomes reporting, as they are part of the same system of recreational use.

Statewide
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,240
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$501,000
Fund Source

This project works to reduce energy consumption and model renewable energy methods on state park, state recreation area, state forest and trail facilities. The DNR Parks and Trails Division is working to increase the use of energy conservation and renewable energy technologies.

Statewide
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,632,257
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,898,561
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,110,684
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,947,973
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,461,909
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,451,564
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,582,358
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,735,579
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,289,555
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,680,018
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,702,528
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$725,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,119,864
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,904,932
Fund Source

This program funds rehabilitation and renewal of buildings and other recreational facilities in Minnesota State Parks and Recreation Areas.

Statewide
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$165,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,720
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$463,910
Fund Source

Install fishing piers at 20 statewide locations (15 replacements and 5 new) with the goal of improving fishing opportunities especially for people with disabilities, children, elderly and those without a boat.

Statewide
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,403,420
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,810,993
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,417,166
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$772,424
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$972,812
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,125,540
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,140,164
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,057,941
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,162,750
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,032,534
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,958,472
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$935,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,016,900
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,944,490
Fund Source

Renewal of existing State Trail surfaces, parking areas, and trail wayside areas, improving accessibility, enhancing user safety and implementing current best management practices. MNDNR Parks and Trails Division has a identified approximately 85 miles of existing state trail in need of rehabilitation and upgrading. This program also focuses on the rehabilitation or replacement of existing state trail bridges, including structural engineering inspections of all trail bridges .

Statewide
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,492,000
Fund Source

Elm Creek Park Reserve. Renovate Nature Center.

Hennepin
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,649

Partner Organizations: Heritage Group North, Inc., Pine River Fire Department and Chamber of Commerce.

Cass
Recipient
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$76,000
Fund Source

Lebanon Hills Regional Park and Spring Lake Park Reserve, replace three septic systems.

Dakota
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,067,000
Fund Source

Minneapolis Chain of Lakes Regional Park, replace play areas, include new equipment, surfacing, drainage, benches, shade areas and other improvements.

Hennepin
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500

The concrete floor in the exhibit and storage area of a former garage structure, located on the Clearwater Historical Society museum grounds, was removed and replaced. The severely deteriorated floor with an insafe step down had been barred to public access. With the floor replaced storage capacity has been increased, artifacts are more accessible, space is more usable and the building is now in compliance with ADA requirements.

Clearwater
Recipient
The Rose Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,250

A professional historian was hired and research was conducted as preparation for a concert production of "Temperance and Temptation". Historical information, music and lyrics for temperance and anti-temperance songs and compelling images were incorporated into the performances. The result was an artistic performance grounded in Minnesota history.

 

Ramsey
Recipient
Friends of the Willmar Public Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,687
To broaden public access to primary historic records through a digital reader/printer and additional microfilm rolls to augment the current collection.
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Maplewood Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of 3M and the development of Maplewood, in preparation for a future exhibit.
Ramsey
Recipient
Rondo Avenue, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of Estyr Peake, Rondo society columnist.
Ramsey
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
American Indian Family Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,000

The language and cultural needs of the American Indian community in the Twin Cities urban area are high. Additionally, the urban area has Dakota and Ojibwe tribal members, as well as, other tribal members.

Recipient
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$145,000
Fund Source

Spring Lake Park Reserve, restore prairie at Schaar's Bluff Gathering Center campus including ecological improvement of 1,500 feet of Mississippi River bluff.

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$343,000
Fund Source

At Battle Creek Regional Park, restore 200 acres of prairie and oak savanna providing additional quality habitat for a variety of wildlife species, including those of greatest conservation need (e.g. Meadow Larks, Bobolinks and other grassland birds).

Ramsey
Recipient
U of MN
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Ecological restorations aim to aid the recovery of native ecosystems that have been degraded or lost. However, very seldom are restorations evaluated past the initial implementation phase to determine whether the efforts achieved their goals and the funds spent were a strategic conservation investment. Monitoring and evaluation of restorations can teach what works and what does not in order to advance restoration practices and increase the likelihood of success for future projects.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,957

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.

With funding from the ACHF, 20 portraits were cleaned and are now more secure with the addition of high-quality non-glare/UV filtering plexiglass. Using the original framing, each portrait was retrofitted to accommodate the new plexiglass.

Statewide
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
Fund Source

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.

Statewide
Recipient
Mahnomen County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To create an exhibit showing the history of two high schools in Mahnomen County
Mahnomen
Recipient
DNR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,000
Fund Source

This program annually evaluates a sample of up to ten Outdoor Heritage Fund habitat restoration projects and provides a report on the evaluations in accordance with state law (M.S. 97A.056, Subd. 10).

Recipient
Benton SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84,211
Fund Source

Little Rock Creek is the only trout stream in the Benton and Morrison County area. The creek has supported a wild brown trout population since they were introduced into Little Rock Lake in 1908. A population assessment done in 1992, however, failed to document the presence of brown trout suggesting that population may have become critically low during the drought years of the late 1980's and early 1990's. The stream has since been listed as impaired due to the low abundance of trout and other cold water fish.

Benton
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$360,322
Fund Source

Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park, revise master plan to guide future trail development and improvements throughout park including Father Hennepin Bluffs, Nicollet Island, BF Nelson, Boom Island, and Mill Ruins.

Hennepin
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

The Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) will create a web-based, mobile-compatible public drainage system inspection and maintenance database. This database system will enable District staff to create and track maintenance requests and inspections from the field, including Geo-referencing locations requiring repair via a mobile device. The system will greatly reduce the time required to identify and log each maintenance request, enabling staff to inventory more miles of public drainage system yearly thereby identifying erosion problems more efficiently and thoroughly.

Anoka
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Stearns SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$243,750
Fund Source

Rice Lake, in Stearns County, is an impaired water for nutrients that has a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Implementation plan developed. Rice Lake is one of the larger lakes in the county, offering major water recreation opportunities, economic benefits as well as fish and wildlife habitat. It is a priority for Stearns County to implement projects that have positive impacts on this resource.

Stearns
Recipient
Rice County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,250
Fund Source

This project will engage the public and community partners in Rice County. The goal of this project is the implementation of conservation practices that retain water on the land by providing up to five sub-grants for rain gardens, vegetative buffers, and wetland restorations.

Rice
Recipient
Rice County - Roberds Lake
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,638,674
Fund Source

Construct collection system and connection to Faribault treatment facility for unsewered area

Rice
Recipient
City of Eden Prairie
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Riley-Jacques Farmstead.
Hennepin
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
Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,940,000
Fund Source

This program is a part of a comprehensive clean water strategy to prevent sediment and nutrients from entering our lakes, rivers, and streams; enhance fish and wildlife habitat; protect groundwater and wetlands. Specifically the Riparian Buffer Easement Program targets creating buffers on riparian lands adjacent to public waters, except wetlands. Through the Reinvest in Minnesota Program (RIM) and in partnership with Soil and Water Conservation Districts and private landowners, permanent conservation easements are purchased and buffers established.

Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Faribault
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Steele
Stevens
Wilkin
Recipient
City Of St. Cloud
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Fund Source

Acquire a 16.2 acre addition to existing 175 acre River Bluffs Regional Park.

Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$768,000
Fund Source

Lilydale-Harriet Island Regional Park. Continued phased implementation of approved Lilydale Regional Park Master Plan elements that may include such amenities as construction of approx. 3,000 lineal feet of roadway, trail, and related facilities. Lilydale

Ramsey
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$515,000
Fund Source

Como Regional Park. Continue implementation of the Master Plan to include completion of Estabrook Road reconstruction and installation of Historic Lantern-style lighting from west end of the Frog Pond to intersection at Lexington Parkway.

Ramsey