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4538 Results for
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New Prague Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Scott
Recipient
Rosemount Area Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,300
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Dakota
Recipient
Saint Louis Park Friends of the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Hennepin
Recipient
Works Progress
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,934
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Hennepin
Recipient
ArtiCulture
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Hennepin
Recipient
ArtReach Saint Croix
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Washington
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East Side Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Ramsey
Recipient
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Ramsey
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,094,000
Fund Source

Phase 5 of the Minnesota Land Trust's Critical Shoreland Habitat Program protected approximately 3.75 miles of shoreland and 417 acres of associated high-quality habitat in Minnesota's Northeast region by securing five permanent conservation easements in strategic locations along priority lakes and rivers. Conservation easements secured under this program are perpetual and will prevent fragmentation and destruction of existing habitat.

Cass
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
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Improve accessibility to the Croft Mine interpretive exhibit.

Crow Wing
Fund Source

Replacement of the elevator at Croft Mine within Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area

Crow Wing
Recipient
Washington County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$136,188
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,684
Fund Source

Acquire 102 acres

Recipient
Crow River Organization of Water
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$157,043
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,765
Fund Source

The project goal is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at five subwatershed sites and two basin sites annually from 2016-2019, based on flow conditions, targeting runoff events using protocols defined in the Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedures and Guidance. The data collected will be submitted to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and used in the FLUX32 model for calculating pollutant loads.

McLeod
Meeker
Stearns
Wright
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Crow Wing County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,000
Fund Source

Crow Wing County, in cooperation with the municipalities within the County, plans to continue its successful well sealing program that pays 50% of the cost to seal / abandon wells up to a maximum of $1000 per well. Priority will be given to wells located in or near existing wellhead protection areas.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,964
Fund Source

This project will collect a complete Trophic Site Index (TSI) data set for Crow Wing County lakes and a complete data set for streams and rivers for the Intensive Monitoring Program (IMP). Crow Wing County, Cass County, Wadena County, Morrison County and Hubbard County are partnering to ensure that all target lakes and rivers within the Crow Wing River watershed are monitored efficiently.

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Crown River Organization of Water
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

This project focuses on preventing and reducing sediment related turbidity problems throughout the Crow River Watershed and contains three main tasks; Best Management Practices (BMP's) installation, public outreach and administration.

Meeker
Recipient
Crystal Bay Twp
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

Lake
Recipient
Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To provide an engineering assessment of an 1887 National Register of Historic Places property's environmental system
Ramsey
Recipient
Bemidji Community Arts Council, Inc. AKA Watermark Art Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

Cultural Traditions in the Arts Grant

Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Hubbard
Itasca
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Roseau
Recipient
Headwaters School of Music & the Arts AKA Headwaters Music & Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

Cultural Traditions in the Arts Grant

Beltrami
Hennepin
Recipient
Native American Flute Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,740

Cultural Traditions in the Arts Grant

Beltrami
Cass
Itasca
Red Lake
Recipient
North Fork Crow River Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is reduce peak flows in the North Fork of the Crow River through culvert sizing. Culvert sizing will typically result in smaller culverts, which will provide short-term temporary storage within channels and on adjacent lands upstream from road crossings. In addition to reducing peak flow rates, flood damage and downstream erosion, increased sediment and nutrient removal through extended detention time is expected.

Kandiyohi
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
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Snake River Watershed Management Board
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$171,766
Fund Source

The Snake River Watershed Management Board (SRWMB), working in concert with other local governmental units in within the watershed, will assist the MPCA, the project consultant, and other members of the Snake River Watershed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) technical team in the completion of tasks associated with this TMDL project. SRWMB, with assistance from members of the technical team (Kanabec Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD), Pine SWCD, Aitkin SWCD, and Mille Lacs SWCD) will provide the services to complete this TMDL project.

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,600
Fund Source

TMDL project in the Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District that will develop a watershed based plan and provide strategies for water quality and aquatic ecosystem management, restoration, and protection within Sunrise River Watershed. This project will also aid in understanding the Phosphorus loading to Lake St. Croix.

Anoka
Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Washington
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Vadnais Lake Area Watershed Management Organization (VLAWMO)
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000
Fund Source

The VLAWMO watershed covers approximately 25 square miles in the northeast metropolitan area in northern Ramsey County and a small portion of Anoka County, Minnesota. It encompasses the City of North Oaks and portions of the Cities of White Bear Lake, Gem Lake, Vadnais Heights, Lino Lakes, and White Bear Township. This project will gather and organize existing data, support the continuation of modeling and TMDL allocations along with an additional stakeholder meeting. It will also provide the completion of a draft and final TMDL report.

Anoka
Ramsey
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Dakota County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,288,000
Fund Source

This project will emphasize restoring and enhancing approximately 260 acres of various permanently protected habitats, and acquiring approximately 154 acres of permanent conservation easements or fee title. Project sites include Lake Byllesby Regional Park, land adjacent to Regional Park Reserves and Regional Greenways, Chub and Marcott Lakes, rivers and streams, and hydric soil areas. Habitats will include forest, grassland, wetland, and riparian areas throughout the County.

Dakota
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$196,581

In 2012, the Minnesota Historical Society will commemorate the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 through a variety of programs and methods, including online presentations, educational tools, published works, artwork, events and community outreach.  Visit usdakotawar.org for a list of all initiatives.  

Statewide
Recipient
The Upper Sioux Community
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000

The Dakota immersion camp will last for nine weeks, beginning June 7, 2010 and ending on August 6th, 2010. It is expected that there will be 25 participants at the camp. Specific camp activities include: speaking, listening, and interacting in Dakota. Going on field trips; nature, culture, others. Preparing and eating meals. Participating in community services. Attending Dakota culture presentations. Mentoring children with Dakota play. Nurturing community garden. Playing games; moccasin, lacrosse, other. Learning and participating in Dakota singing and dancing, as appropriate.

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Dakota Wicohan
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To conduct oral history interviews with the few remaining Dakota-as-a-first language speakers.  In July 2011, KARE-TV featured the project as part of its "Land of 10,000 Stories" series. 

Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Native American Community Development Institute
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$107,900
To produce a cross-disciplinary book-length manuscript on the history of land use by Dakota people in Minnesota prior to 1862.
Hennepin
Recipient
Dakota County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Fund Source

The Dakota County?Farmland and Natural Areas?Program will protect over 350 acres of high quality wildlife habitat including 1.7 miles of Cannon River shoreline, 2.0 miles of Chub Creek and .70 miles of shoreline along Marcott Lake in Dakota County. Permanent conservation easements from willing landowners will be acquired and landowners will be required to complete natural resource management plans.

Dakota
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,500
Fund Source

The acqusition of this 80 acre parcel is a very nice fit to the Dalbo WMA. It allows for expanded habitat management and hunting opportunities for a myirad of wildlife species. This is a wonderful additon/round-out to this expansive and heavily used WMA. Which currently is 2610 acres in size.
This MDHA chapter provided significant dollars to help DNR acquire 460 tract with in the past two years.

Isanti
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Danebod Lutheran Church and Folk School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,551

The early nineteen hundred drawing by Jes Smidt exhibited in a lecture hall at the Danebod Folk School complex was safely removed and transported to the Midwest Art Conservation Center laboratories where condition reports and treatment proposals for conservation of the drawing were determined.

Lincoln
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Dassel Area Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,375
Meeker
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Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,700
To enhance its collections database through additional content, development and implementation of a controlled vocabulary, and making the database accessible to the public via its website
Hennepin
Recipient
City of Dawson
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Lac qui Parle
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City of Dayton
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,462
Hennepin
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,500
Fund Source

Removing debris from decades of multiple use.

St. Louis
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Carlton County Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$244,435
Fund Source

This project will result in the development of a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for turbidity for Deer Creek and the Nemadji River, and will also define which reaches of the Nemadji basin may be meeting standards for turbidity. It will also allow the Carlton County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) to become a full and active partner in this TMDL study and implementation project as well as future restoration and protection projects.

Carlton
Pine
Recipient
DeGraff, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Construct sewer collection and treatment system for unsewered area

Swift