Como Apprentice Program is an education program that supports students looking to gain professional experience and learn more about the plants and animals. The program structure is the student is offered a 2 year paid internship through the City's RightTrack program and the apprentice support and education is supported through this EdZooCation program that includes career development education classes, workshops and training.
The Lower Minnesota River East Watershed Partnership would like to request our first round of WBIF funding. The Funding request is for FY'24 and FY'25, but will be incorporated into the FY'24-FY'26 Workplan.
The Red Lake Watershed District, Clearwater, East Polk, Pennington, Red Lake County SWCD's have agreed to work Collectively via MOA to implement water quality projects throughout the Clearwater River Watershed. Implementation efforts are priorities following the guidance of the Comprehensive watershed plan completed in spring of 2023. FY25 funds will be used to continue the implementation of projects identified and/or developed over the FY23 timeframe to continue to meet the goals highlighted in the comprehensive watershed plan.
Increase opportunity for 375 underserved, diverse teens, from urban and first-ring suburbs, to experience and connect to environmental sciences in the natural world through YMCA canoeing/learning expeditions with experienced
The Minnesota Historical Society partnered with the 70 Years Project to begin development of a web site that will enable all Minnesotans to again share in the tragedies and triumphs of the 1,345 days of World War II. The site will feature oral histories from World War II veterans as well as a wartime headline taken from Minnesota newspapers for every day of the war. The web site will serve as a resource for the general public, as well as for the relatives of the more than 300,000 Minnesotans who fought in the war.
A collaboration between the Roseau County SWCD and the Roseau River Watershed District (RRWD), the CD 8 Subwatershed Sediment Reduction Project will reduce sediment delivery to the Roseau River by implementing Best Management Practices on sites that have been identified as the greatest contributors of sediment. Sites were prioritized based on modeled data from the Watershed District's Site Prioritization Grant, and the International Watershed Institutes's Water Quality Decision Support Application (WQDSA) and local knowledge of the subwatershed.
Design, engineer, & implement improvements associated with the ongoing restoration of Hall's Island and the creation of a park on the Scherer site, including bridge and boardwalk access to the island, trails, pathways, canoe/kayak launching and other river access, shoreline restoration, stormwater management, buildings, earthwork, informational signage, & visitor comfort facilities
Funding would be used to match an authorized State G.O. Bond to implement public infrastructure and a new park on the Upper Harbor Terminal site. Funding activities would include design, engineering, trails, plazas, recreational amenities, natural areas, shoreline restoration, and other elements called for in the park's adopted master plan. The primary intended outcome is to create publicly accessible Mississippi River waterfront, which has never existed in this location nor is widely available in north and northeast Minneapolis.
Implement various aspects of the River First Plan for Above the Falls Regional Park, including, potentially, riverside park spaces at Upper Harbor Terminal, extended trail connections, bridge retrofits for pedestrian and bicycle access to trails, a river overlook and critical trail gap at 26th Avenue North, and shoreline restoration on MPRB-owned property throughout the corridor. Funded work could include design, engineering, administration, earthwork, trails, shoreline enhancement, natural areas, buildings, comfort facilities, interpretive facilities, and signage.
This project would acquire land from willing sellers along the Mississippi River for parkland within the Above the Falls Regional Park and prepare restoration plans.
This grant will fund continued implementation of Upper Harbor Terminal within the Above the Falls Regional Park. Work will include consultant fees for design, engineering, and administration related to implementation of the improvements defined in the construction contract documents for the Park at Upper Harbor and related to the process of constructing the park.
This grant will fund continued implementation of Upper Harbor Terminal within the Above the Falls Regional Park. Work will include consultant fees for design, engineering, and administration related to implementation of the improvements defined in the construction contract documents for the Park at Upper Harbor and related to the process of constructing the park.
This Phase 1 partnership will accelerate USFWS wildlife habitat easements to restore and protect 720 acres of private grasslands and pothole wetlands in west-central Minnesota. These "working land" conservation easements allow delayed haying and grazing while protecting restored wetlands and prairie grasslands for nesting ducks, pheasants, and other wildlife.
This proposal accelerates the strategic permanent protection of 1,003 acres (241 wetlands and 762 grasslands) of Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) open to public hunting in Minnesota. Pheasants Forever (PF) will strategically acquire parcels that are adjacent to existing public land or create corridors between complexes. All acquisitions will occur in the prairie, prairie/forest transition, or metro regions.
Native Prairie Bank will work with willing landowners to permanently protect 235 acres of native prairie and supporting habitat through perpetual conservation easements. Easement acquisition will focus on Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan identified landscapes and target Minnesota Biological Survey identified threatened and endangered plant and animal species, high quality plant communities, and key habitats for Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) and other wildlife species.
This proposal will accomplish shallow lake and wetland enhancement and restoration work throughout Minnesota, with a focus on the prairie region. Over 4,000 acres of wetland habitat will be impacted. The proposal is comprised of two components - (1) projects to engineer, construct and/or implement shallow lake and wetland enhancement activities, including cattail control, and (2) an expansion of the Wetland Management Program to increase its capacity to identify and implement needed management work for small wetlands in the prairie region.
