All Projects

The purpose of this project is to complete a feasibility study to determine the best sites for projects in the Boot Creek headwaters, in the Le Sueur River watershed, to reduce erosion and pollutant loading. The study will identify critical source areas and provide additional watershed information to assist in prioritizing locations to address local resource management and water quality goals.

To improve collections care and management through an updated collections management system.

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Replace restroom building & maintenance garage south of the Chalet Rd. parking lot with new restrooms that meet ADA requirements and new maintenance/trash/recycling building, including demolition to existing structures, retaining walls, soil corrections, associated stormwater management improvements, landscaping, lighting, concrete driveway & sidewalk connections, utilities, furniture, fixtures, equipment, turf restoration, surveys/permits, signage, plus design/engineering/legal & contingencies

Great Lakes Lifeways Institute will expand and deepen their work, launching a series of seasonal, traditional harvest camps that are designed to initiate a long-term elder/youth apprenticeship program. The project includes five harvest camps each year, over two years, with the support of community partners, as well as smaller cultural gatherings around specific knowledge and traditional ways.

Project will remove a 28-year-old, outdated, creative playground that is in poor condition and replace with a modernized creative playground. The outcome will be a modernized, destination playground that will attract a wide range of youth of varying abilities and other household members. The playground will have areas of play designed for pre-kindergarten and for ages 5 to early teens. Elements of the playground area include play apparatus, shade structures, picnic tables, landscaping, and trails.

This project will locally maintain the ongoing efforts established by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to assess surface water quality at two locations within McLeod County; specifically, South Fork Crow River near Lester Prairie and Buffalo Creek near Glencoe.

The Humanities Center used a portion of the Legacy funding for program planning and management. This support includes work such as exploratory and planning meetings for new initiatives and program management of all our Legacy work.

The Humanities Center used a portion of the Legacy funding for program planning and management. This support includes work such as exploratory and planning meetings for new initiatives and program management of all our Legacy work.

County-wide. Host MN Conservation Corps crew to engage youth in natural resource management projects.

This project is a direct artistic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In fall of 2024, Theatre Novi Most will work with playwright Andrei Kureichik, dramaturg Wendy Weckwerth, director Vladimir Rovinsky and three community advisors to create a new play based on stories we have gathered in Story Circles across Minnesota. After the play is written the project will produce professional public readings of it at three sites in Minneapolis with supertitles in Ukrainian.

The position manages park and trail maintenance personnel and corresponding operations. The position is responsible for asset management of park facilities, grounds and natural resources (forest, prairie, wetland, shore land, wildlife).

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

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

This work will involve enhancing the capability of the Scenario Analysis Manager (SAM) tool to run more complex point source alternative scenarios, produce results and output in line with the recently developed Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) report standards, and general enhancements requested by users.

The goal of this work order is to enhance the Scenario Analysis Manager (SAM) support tool in order to represent best management practices in a more physically based manner, improve point scenario representation and analysis, and support MPCA with training in the application of the enhanced functionality.

Objective 1: Software Development i. Activity 1.1: Create a Dakota language app ii. Activity 1.2: Create a keyboard for phones and computers Objective 2: Meet with Language Consultant(s) i. Activity 2.1: Lessons with an elder/language speaker ii. Activity 2.2: Consultation with an elder Objective 3: Curriculum Development i. Activity 3.1: Meet with developers ii. Activity 3.2: Create a language textbook

To hire qualified professionals to produce an edited manuscript on the history of the Seward Neighborhood.

Crack seal and seal coat 1.5 miles of trail at Lake Minnewashta Regional Park and 3.4 miles of trail on the Dakota Rail Regional Trail. This maintains user satisfaction of 164,000 visits, and 107,000 visits annually to Lake

This proposal will fund technical assistance for nutrient management planning to accelerate water quality improvements with the 12-county West Central Technical Service Area (WCTSA). A needs assessment identified an estimated 156 certified nutrient management plans that will be needed over a 3 year period. Of the 71 SWCD employees in the WCTSA, only 1 SWCD staff member is dedicated to nutrient management planning. To meet technical assistance needs, this grant will fund a Regional Planning Specialist (RPS) to address local resource concerns.

A large portion of Otter Tail County has been identified as being susceptible to groundwater contamination from nitrates and other water soluble contaminants. Agriculture is the predominant land use activity in this area. Irrigation in the county has increased in the last few years. With the vast majority of the residents getting their drinking water from groundwater sources, protecting ground is a priority for the county.

Pell Creek is a tributary to the Cottonwood River, one of the thirteen major watersheds in the Minnesota River Basin and the largest watershed in Redwood County. The dominant land use is agricultural, chiefly row-crops with some livestock production. The vast majority of the wetlands have been drained through a highly intricate and efficient system of tiling and ditching.

The Stewart River is a state protected water and a Designated Trout Stream. In 2010, it was identified as a high priority watershed during the update of the Lake County Water Management Plan. The river empties into Lake Superior near the drinking water intake for the City of Two Harbors.
This project will restore five severely eroding streambank sites along a 1.5 mile reach of the Stewart River. Commitments have been secured from the five property owners, including the Lake County Highway Department, to complete the project.

This appropriation will be used to provide continued contract management services to pass-through recipients of Outdoor Heritage Fund dollars appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources.

Provide continued contract management and customer service to OHF pass-through appropriation recipients. Ensure funds are expended in compliance with appropriation law, state statute, grants policies, and approved work plans.

Provide continued contract management and customer service to OHF pass-through appropriation recipients. Ensure funds are expended in compliance with appropriation law, state statute, grants policies, and approved accomplishment plans.

This project will complete the installation of four nested wells to the Ambient Groundwater Monitoring Network and relocated one well in the City of Saint Paul. Braun Intertec will coordinate site access and oversee the well installation by a state drilling contractor.

This project will assess the efficiency of membrane bioreactor treatment to remove contaminants of emerging concern from wastewater, disinfect wastewater, and produce less toxic waste stream to fish. The study will analyze and interpret 40 effluent samples.

Cow Tipping Press will 1) hire a consultant with STAR Services to undergo the process of becoming a Department of Human Services (DHS) billable activity; 2) consult with the Mobius Group to bring accounting and HR practices onto more automated platforms; 3) consult with Corvus North on best practices for growing donations from major gifts and family foundations.

Implement an awareness and marketing campaign to increase awareness and familiarity of the Dakota County park system

To hire a qualified consultant to prepare a collections management policies and procedures document.