Enhance lake conservation planning of state and local partners with a comprehensive update of Minnesota?s lake and pond GIS data as well as streamlining future maintenance.
Updating the Species in Greatest Conservation Need list through surveys, standardized assessments, and including rare plants for the first time to create v.3.0 of Minnesota?s Wildlife Action Plan
The City of Moose Lake will be constructing a non-motorized recreation trail along Highway 73. This new trail will connect to several regional existing trails in the Moose Lake area.
The City of Hoyt Lakes and the Ranger ATV and Snowmobile Club will be improving the Moose and Seven Bears Trails and extending the trails to connect to regional trails.
Project will restore and demonstrate a native prairie habitat in order to enhance the local ecosystem for beneficial pollinators as well as to offer educational opportunities.
The City of Morris and several partners will develop a model community for energy and environmental stewardship which will serve as a roadmap for other small communities across the state.
The Mustinka River Fish and Wildlife Habitat Corridor project will permanently rehabilitate a 5-mile straightened reach of the Mustinka River to a naturally functioning stream channel and floodplain.
Eastern larch beetle, native to Minnesota, is suddenly decimating Minnesota?s tamarack forests. This proposal develops insect management techniques and determines how bad this problem may remain in the future.
We will examine impacts of neonicotinoid exposure on greater prairie-chickens in Minnesota by radio-marking hens, collecting samples, and monitoring hen survival, nest success and brood survival.
This acceleration package will fulfill ENTRF goals including rare wildlife data collection and management, conservation education, collaborative land protection management, & new emphasis on nature tourism to benefit rural communities.
The North Shore Forest Collaborative (via Sugarloaf) seeks to contract foresters to perform a concerted private land forestry outreach to restore ecological health to Minnesota?s North Shore forest landscape.
Eradicate identified oak wilt at these northern most locations on nine private properties by mechanical means to stop the invasiveness before it spreads to healthy state forests affecting habitat.
Suppress oak wilt at the leading edge to prevent infestation in private and public forests to the north and west including Pillsbury State Forest and Camp Ripley.
This is a citizen-science project driven by hunters. We'll recruit hunters statewide and provide remote cameras to deploy at field-dressed deer gut piles to study scavengers, hunter provisioning, and CWD.
We will develop a method to monitor approximately 93,000 acres of protected old growth forest in Minnesota to ensure that these rare and important forest resources are properly protected.
The project will collect physical attributes from the Lost River State Forest and generate model and report detailing comprehensive hydrologic restoration strategies for future restorative efforts.
Construction of the West Segment (6.83 miles) of the 32-mile Perham to Pelican Rapids Regional Trail that will connect the City of Pelican Rapids to Maplewood State Park.
Construction of the McDonald Segment (5.83 miles) of the 32-mile Perham to Pelican Rapids Regional Trail that will connect Perham and Pelican Rapids via Maplewood State Park.
Develop and implement a fungal filtering system that combines the benefits of both waste wood chips and soil fungi to sequester and degrade PFAS leachate from contaminated waste sites.
This project will result in the design, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative method for protection of water resources and mitigation of emerging water contaminants in landfill leachate; specifically, PFAS.
Bring "plumbing," or serious and effective water management devices and techniques, to the Superior Hiking Trail. This includes building structures and sculpting and managing soil and rock.
The Pollinator Ambassadors for Urban Gardens project will enhance outreach capacity for pollinator education by creating an outreach toolkit and training educators and youth for engagement in native pollinator education.
Small phase promoting the restoration and enhancement of 29 acres of pollinator habitat on 4 new sites, with community engagement and education through public planting and pollinator monitoring events.
This restoration project will restore native prairie, support pollinator plantings, and stabilize a large section of streambank along the Mississippi River.
We will restore and enhance 116 acres of pollinator habitat on 11 sites around the metro to benefit pollinators and people, and build knowledge of the impact through community-based monitoring.
Pollinator Education in the Science Classroom will provide professional development for 58 science teachers to use pollinator education curriculum and outreach materials, ultimately reaching >6000 students annually.
This research will test whether plantings for pollinators can remediate soils impacted by metals (like lead) and emerging contaminants (like microplastics) through the redistribution of toxins to safer areas.
Create the maximum acres of pollinator habitat at five Closed Landfill Program sites. These sites will act as pilot projects to inform future pollinator habitat reconstruction projects in the program.
Produce, broadcast and share 26 science-based environmental programs, 26 call to action and 27 outdoor lifestyle videos that inspire and demonstrate how to protect and engage with Minnesota's natural resources.
We will predict the ranges of native aquatic species in Minnesota using recently available high quality datasets and information on past and present ranges coupled with powerful statistical techniques.
Brushlands provide critical habitat for >250 wildlife species. We compare effects of spring, summer and fall burns on birds and vegetation, providing much needed management guidelines for this key habitat.
