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Recipient
Houston Engineering
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,953
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to address public comments on the public noticed draft Watershed Restoration & Protection Strategy (WRAPS) study and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report for the watershed, and to produce a final draft WRAPS study and TMDL report ready for final approval by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Becker Soil & Water Conservation District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$398,800
Fund Source

During the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's 2011 lake assessment process nine shallow lakes located in the Buffalo-Red River Watershed in western Becker County were determined to be impaired for excessive nutrients primarily from agricultural runoff. Located in a heavy agricultural production area, this project will address agricultural stormwater runoff by installing 50 water and sediment control basins and 20 acres of vegetative buffer strips adjacent to the lakes. Fifteen landowners with a potential for 26 water and sediment control basin sites have already been identified.

Becker
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
Fund Source

Governor Mark Dayton's landmark buffer initiative was signed into law in 2015. The law establishes new perennial vegetation buffers of up to 50 feet along rivers, streams, and ditches that will help filter out phosphorus, nitrogen, and sediment. The new law provides flexibility and financial support for landowners to install and maintain buffers. The DNR's role in Minnesota's new buffer law is to produce a statewide map of public waters and public ditches that require permanent vegetation buffers. The DNR is scheduled to produce these maps by July 2016.

Statewide
Recipient
Scott County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$527,000
Fund Source

Spring Lake Regional Park. Construct 3 miles of paved trails, dog area, parking and facilities.

Scott
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,222,030
Fund Source

Nokomis Hiawatha Regional Park. Construct trail, shoreline, play area improvements.

Hennepin
Recipient
Dakota County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$657,000
Fund Source

Mississippi River Regional Trail. Construct 3.2 miles of trail through Spring Lake Park Reserve.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Mississippi Valley Greenway Regional Trail. Construct trail.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County Agriculture Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To restore several Dakota City building exteriors on the fairgrounds, in collaboration with Dakota City Heritage Village. These local structures that portray a 1900 era rural village include the 1867 Vermillion Presbyterian Church, the belfry of the District 96 one room school, and the 1861 frame structure that was originally built as a school and most recently used as the millinery and dressmaker’s shop.

Dakota
Recipient
Chicano Latino Affairs Council
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,500

The Chicano Latino Affairs Council and the Humanities Center will build on the grant received last year, which was intended to identify the elements of success in programs for Latino high school students and ways to replicate them. Applying the findings of CLAC's and HACER's research, CLAC will integrate its biennium goal of improving levels of educational achievement for Latino youth with the Legacy goal of enriching Minnesota’s cultural legacy by piloting the program in two Minnesota schools.

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,479

Partner: The Conservation Corps of Minnesota (CCM)

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$76,935

Partners: Access Philanthropy

Statewide
Recipient
The NetWork for Better Futures d/b/a Better Futures Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$845,000
Statewide
Recipient
The NetWork for Better Futures d/b/a Better Futures Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,000
Statewide
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

Through the construction of new interactive exhibits and the creation of educational programming, the Duluth Children's Museum will highlight the community and culture of Duluth and the surrounding region. A climbable, playable model of Duluth's iconic canal lighthouses and an educational Ojibwe waaginogaan are among the planned new elements being added to the museum experience.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
MN Alliance of Local History Museums (MALHM) collaborates with MNHS to develop the capacity of history professionals across the state to serve local communities. This partnership will distribute best practices to all corners of the state through a conference to be held in April 2016 in Willmar. The partnership also will begin to operate with a paid coordinator to assure efficiency in serving a greater number of Minnesotans and their organizations that save and share history.
Statewide
Recipient
West Polk SWCD
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$208,610
Fund Source

The Red Lake River is impaired for turbidity. It is also the drinking water source for residents living in East Grand Forks. Burnham Creek is a tributary to the Red Lake River and its watershed is well known for its intensive agriculture, flat topography and frequent flooding. Over the last 20 years, head cutting of the bottom of the channel has led to bank failures, flow restrictions, sedimentation and constriction of fish passage. Soil loss from this is approximately 117 tons per year.

Polk
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,631,794
Fund Source

Funds are to be used to protect, enhance and restore water quality in lakes, rivers and streams and to protect groundwater and drinking water. Activities include structural and vegetative practices to reduce runoff and retain water on the land, feedlot water quality projects, SSTS abatement grants for low income individuals, and stream bank, stream channel and shoreline protection projects. For the fiscal year 2012, BWSR awarded 12 local governments with funds.

Chisago
Lac qui Parle
Lake of the Woods
McLeod
Mille Lacs
Pennington
Pope
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Lyon County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,409,925
Fund Source

to construct 6.75 miles of new paved off-road bicycle and pedestrain trail from Camden State Park to the City of Marshall

Lyon
Recipient
BWSR with Morrison County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,462,200
Fund Source

The project protect approximately 1090 acres of habitat for fish, game and wildlife with easements along the Mississippi and Crow Wing Rivers and tributaries. Protection will reduce infringement and development and improve watershed function.

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison
Recipient
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Once thought to have an essentially inexhaustible groundwater supply, Minnesotans are now realizing our rates of use are regionally unsustainable. Recent advanced modeling by the MN DNR and Metropolitan Council of aquifer supplies, in conjunction with predicted demand, indicate the major metropolitan area aquifers are currently subject to extraction rates that exceed recharge. Simply stated, we are mining our groundwater.

Scott
Recipient
Cannon River Watershed Partnership
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,973
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to use a science-based and participatory approach to understanding and promoting conservation practices in the agricultural community.

Blue Earth
Dakota
Dodge
Freeborn
Goodhue
Le Sueur
Rice
Scott
Steele
Waseca
Recipient
LimnoTech
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$154,020
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,915
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to apply the Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model to evaluate scenarios to support potential management actions and implementation in the watershed, construct Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies, and to develop a conceptual site model of the lakes for understanding phosphorus release.

Dakota
Goodhue
Le Sueur
Rice
Steele
Recipient
The Trust for Public Land
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,760,000
Fund Source

Protect +/- 428 and restore +/- 175 acres near Cannon River Headwaters including wetlands, Big Woods forest, and river & shallow lake shoreline to reverse habitat loss, improve watershed function, and provide access.

Rice
Recipient
Trust for Public Land
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,380,000
Fund Source

Through fee-title acquisition, the Trust for Public Land permanently protected 242 acres (88% of our goal) in the Cannon River Watershed. This resulted in one new Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) and four additions to existing WMAs. Now publicly accessible, these protected areas include wetland, prairie, and "Big Woods" forest habitat. The permanent preservation of these places has reversed habitat loss, allowed for habitat restoration, and increased access to public lands for hunting, fishing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation opportunities.

Goodhue
Le Sueur
Rice
Recipient
Robert D. Adams
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,290
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Carlton
Recipient
Kirsten M. Aune
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,290
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Joshua A. Bernstein AKA J. A. Bernstein
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,860
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Craig J. Blacklock
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150
Career Development Grant
Carlton
Recipient
Adam Booker
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Judith E. Budreau AKA Judy Budreau
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$456
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Cook
Recipient
Mary E. Bue
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Hennepin
Recipient
Jeanette M. Cox
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,251
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Cook
Lake
Recipient
Eric M. Dubnicka
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$628
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Julie K. Gard
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$84
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Marc S. Gartman
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,860
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Brent W. Kustermann
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,860
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Brett Grandson
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,860
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Paula M. Gudmundson
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Andrew J. Helbacka-Bennett AKA Andy Bennett
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150
Career Development Grant
St. Louis
Recipient
Kristen Kaas
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,579
Career Development Grant
St. Louis