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Rock Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$46,129
Fund Source

The Rock River is classified as impaired for bacteria and turbidity by the EPA. Local citizens and farmers assisted in writing an Implementation plan that lists stream bank stabilization and city storm water management as priority implementation strategies to address these impairments of the Rock River.The Clean Water Fund grant provides $46,598 for these projects but also leverage over $19,000 of US Fish and Wildlife dollars along with over $13,000 of local match from the landowners.

Rock
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Rocori Trail Board
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$920,000
Fund Source

Extensions and connections to the Rocori Trail.

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Heritage Organization of Romanian Americans in Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To create a documentary about the experiences of Romanian immigrants in Minnesota.
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Taylor Township
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
The project replaced asphalt shingles from the late 1960s with wooden shingles to complete a restoration project started in 2007, the repair the roof of the District No. 44 School, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It involved removing two layers of shingles and inspecting the underlying sheathing, making historically accurate repairs where necessary, and re-shingling the school with wooden shingles.
Statewide
Traverse
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The Nature Conservancy/MN Land Trust
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,644,600
Fund Source

The Nature Conservancy acquired in fee 3 properties that added 143 acres to the RJ Doer Memorial Hardwood Forest. The Minnesota Land Trust protected 3 properties with perpetual easements totaling 526 acres. The Nature Conservancy enhanced 396 acres of high priority habitat (bluff prairie and oak savanna) on existing state forest and Scientific and Natural Area lands, and an additional 35 acres on new fee acquisitions. 

Fillmore
Houston
Winona
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Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridges along the Root River State Trail between the communities of Lanesboro and Rushford.

Fillmore
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridges along the Root River State Trail between the communities of Lanesboro and Rushford.

Fillmore
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Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridges along the Root River State Trail between the communities of Lanesboro and Rushford.

Fillmore
Recipient
Fillmore County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$319,700
Fund Source

TMDL project in the Root River Watershed that will support surface water assessment, analysis of data, interpretation of southeast Minnesota's karst landscape, stressor identification, TMDL computation, source assessment, and implementation planning.

Dodge
Fillmore
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
City of Royalton
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,245
To add 58 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Statewide
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Anoka County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,900,000
Fund Source

This program will acquire the remaining 328 acres of prairie, wetland, forest and shoreline habitat for fish, game and wildlife along the Rum River and Cedar Creek in the cities of Oak Grove and Andover and will provide additional opportunities for public fishing, hunting and wildlife conservation.

Anoka
Recipient
Dawson-Boyd Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400

Attend Rural Arts and Cultural Summit.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Friends of the Auditorium, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$499
Attend Rural Arts and Cultural Summit.
Nobles
Recipient
Rock County Fine Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Attend Rural Arts and Culture Summit.
Rock
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City Of Rushford
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

to construct 1 mile of new trail connecting the 42 mile Root River State Trail to the Rushford Area

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Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,383
To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for Sacred Heart Public School.
Renville
Recipient
Truman Historical Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,800

To improve public safety in acessing the Truman History Museum

Martin
Recipient
St Stefan Romanian Orthodox Church
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified historian to conduct a conditions assessment of St. Stefan Romanian Orthodox Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Dakota
Recipient
HAND in HAND Productions
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To document in 2-4 interviews the history of the Saint Paul Police Department.
Ramsey
Fund Source

Replacement of State Trail Bridge over a unnamed tributary to the Cannon River, within the boundaries of Sakatah State Park.

Rice
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trails Bridge over a unnamed tributary to the Cannon River, within the boundaries of Sakatah State Park.

Rice
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trails Bridges on the Sakatah - Singing Hills State Trail between Waterville and Madison Lake (LeSueur and Blue Earth Counties).

Le Sueur
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridge over Pauls Creek, west of the City of Faribault.

Rice
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trails Bridge over the Cannon River in the City of Morristown

Rice
Fund Source

Rehabilitation of State Trail Bridge over the Cannon River, west of the Community of Warsaw.

Rice
Fund Source

Replacement of State Trail Bridge over a unamed tributary to the Cannon River, west of the City of Faribault.

Rice
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Scott Watershed Management Organization
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Fund Source

This goal of this project is improving water quality and expanding critical wildlife habitat by permanently restoring and enhancing wetlands in the Sand Creek and Prior/Spring Lake Watersheds. By making sign-up payments available through this grant, this project will restore or enhance 400 to 500 acres of wetlands moderating flows and improving water quality. The NRCS has committed $2.5 million through the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program (WREP), the Scott WMO $314,000, the PLSLWD $145,000, Rice SWCD $40,000, Le Sueur SWCD $40,000, and the Scott SWCD $75,000.

Scott
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East Polk SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$281,053
Fund Source

The East Polk Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) identified the Sand Hill Watershed as a priority area because of soil loss associated with steep slopes common in the area. The SWCD is working cooperatively with the Sand Hill Watershed District to keep soil from eroding, and to capture it where it does erode. The SWCD provides technical design services and receives funding from the Sand Hill Watershed District to install conservation practice such as sediment basins.

Polk
Recipient
Sauk River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$61,540
Fund Source

This project will complete an assessment of watershed lakes and streams. The assessment will include biological and stressor id analysis, which will support a summary report on lake conditions and protection strategies for lakes included in this watershed study.

Douglas
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Todd
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Sauk River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$435,289
Fund Source

The Sauk River Stormwater Runoff Reduction and Riparian Restoration Project is a watershed-wide effort to reduce the amount of nutrients delivered by stormwater and bank erosion to area surface waters. Funds will be used to assist local schools and municipalities with their restoration project design, installation, and financing.

Douglas
Pope
Stearns
Todd
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Emmons & Olivier Resources (EOR)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,783
Fund Source
The goal of this project is the development of a phosphorus TMDL for the eleven impaired lakes in the Sauk River Watershed.
Stearns
Recipient
Emmons & Olivier Resources (EOR)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,980
Fund Source
Develop a phosphorus TMDL for Eden and Vails Lakes in the Sauk River Watershed.
Stearns
Recipient
Savage, City of
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$459,665
Fund Source

Calcareous fens such as the Savage Fen are fragile ecosystems existing only under a unique combination of soil type, hydrology, chemistry, and vegetation. The City of Savage is continuing efforts to protect this important ecosystem through this project. Two large ravines -Dakota Avenue and McColl's Bluff - discharge to the Fen, which was granted special status under the State's Wetlands Conservation Act. Both ravines are highly eroded and carry a significant amount of stormwater and sediment to the Savage Fen.

Scott
Fund Source

This project upgraded 20 electric campsites at Scenic State Park to 50 amp service, and electrified 20 new campsites. This is a substantial improvement in providing this important service to RV campers.

Itasca
Recipient
Eagle View Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$680
Readers' Theater activities as part of the literacy curriculum.
Crow Wing
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Freshwater Education District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,410
Visual arts workshops by Heidi Steadman for elementary students in seven schools.
Todd
Recipient
Freshwater Education District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,600
Poetry workshops with David Bengtson in six school districts.
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Public Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
Music enrichment for K-12.
Todd
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Nisswa Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,050
Traditional folk dances with artist in residence Terrance Smith.
Crow Wing
Recipient
Northland Community Schools
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Traditional Ojibwe Singer will teach drumming and singing once a week for 20 weeks with the Indian Education Program Coordinator.
Cass