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St. Cloud State University
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$364,000
Statewide
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U of MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Statewide
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Vadnais Lake Area WMO
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$97,000
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Ramsey
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Sherburne SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,005
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The funds requested will provide Big Lake Township with the technical and financial assistance necessary to retrofit up to six locations for stormwater treatment practices within the direct drainage area of Birch Lake, an impaired water body which is very close to meeting state standards. The projects have been identified as high priority in several water quality plans including a TMDL, a subwatershed assessment, the County Water Plan and the Mississippi River (St. Cloud) WRAPS.

Sherburne
Recipient
City of Blooming Prairie
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,763
Steele
Recipient
Isanti SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$251,545
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Isanti
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Blue Earth County SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,929
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The Blue Earth SWCD will be monitoring 7 stream sites located in the Le Sueur River Watershed.  The stream sites will be monitored at the road crossing locations via bridge, culvert or shore.  Onsite conditions will be recorded, water sample readings will be taken for Secchi tube, specific conductance, temperature, pH, DO, and photos taken.  

Blue Earth
Waseca
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Washington Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
Fund Source

In recent years, nutrient enrichment has occurred in Lake St. Croix due to increasing amounts of phosphorus entering the lake from the watershed. According to the TMDL, approximately half of the phosphorus-loading to Lake St. Croix is in the soluble form, and agriculture has been identified as one of the largest contributors of that phosphorus. In addition to the TMDL, subwatershed analyses were completed to identify, assess, and prioritize phosphorus-reducing practices in rural areas draining to Lake St. Croix in Washington County. This project will reduce phosphorus discharges to the St.

Washington
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Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000

To increase the Ojibwe language fluency, proficiency and literacy fo the Bois Forte Indian Community through partnerships with existing language perservation programs to develop a curriculum for pre-K learners, and K-6th grade.

Koochiching
St. Louis
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Lake of the Woods SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$378,000
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Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Washington County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,752
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Upgrade software and hire consultant services to assist in providing multilingual services for park users in St. Croix Bluffs and Lake Elmo Park. Consultant tasks would include design guidance and direction in effective communication methods to non-native speakers

Washington
Recipient
Equity Alliance MN
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000

The Equity Alliance MN will bring to life absent narratives of Latino, Hmong, Native, Asian, African American, and women of the Civil Rights Era in a collaboration among youth, social studies teachers, Full Circle Theater (FCT), and St. Paul Neighborhood Network. The narratives, researched by youth, will be transformed by FCT into a six person play that will be presented, video recorded, and distributed with accompanying curriculum written by social studies teachers for teachers across the Equity Alliance MN and the state.

Anoka
Dakota
Ramsey
Washington
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Tetra Tech
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,925
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to complete the construction of an Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Buffalo River watershed. Tetra Tech will produce a HSPF watershed model application(s) that will be fully functioning and ready for calibration as part of Phase 2. 

Becker
Clay
Otter Tail
Wilkin
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Becker SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$398,000
Fund Source
Becker
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
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
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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
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
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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
North Hennepin Pioneer Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
Hennepin
Recipient
The Conservation Fund
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,300
Fund Source

The property was not able to be acquired and protected for reasons not known to project managers and partners at the outset of the project in 2017.

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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
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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
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
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
The Trust for Public Land
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,436,000
Fund Source

Through fee-title acquisition, Trust for Public Land permanently protected 253 acres (115% of our goal) throughout the Cannon River Watershed. This resulted in two additions to existing Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). These now publicly accessible and protected areas include wetland, prairie, and Big Woods forest habitat. The permanent protection 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.

Le Sueur
Steele
Recipient
Kirsten M. Aune
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

Hennepin
St. Louis
Recipient
Joseph W. Baltich AKA Joe Baltich
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$610

Career Development Grant

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Craig J. Blacklock
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

Carlton
Cook
Pine
Chisago
Ramsey
Washington
Hennepin
Dakota
Goodhue
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Rachel R. Colber
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,685

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
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Wendy Durrwachter
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
Recipient
Laura Goodman
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
Lake
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Carla D. Hamilton
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
Jamie Aubid
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

Itasca
Recipient
Jacob Jonker
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$283

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
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Lance T. Karasti
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,413

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
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Elizabeth J. Belz
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

Cook
Washington
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Cecilia A. Lieder
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,413

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
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Kathleen A. McTavish AKA Kathy McTavish
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,695

Career Development Grant

St. Louis
Hennepin
Ramsey
Olmsted
Carlton
Pine