All Projects

4895 Results for
Recipient
DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Provide continued contract management and customer service to OHF pass-through appropriation recipients. Ensure funds are expended in compliance with appropriation law, state statute, grants policies, and approved accomplishment plans.

Recipient
DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

Provide continued contract management and customer service to OHF pass-through appropriation recipients. Ensure funds are expended in compliance with appropriation law, state statute, grants policies, and approved accomplishment plans.

Recipient
Cook County SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000
Fund Source

This project is for Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) development in the Rainy River Headwaters watershed. The recipient will provide support for outreach and engagement in Rainy River Headwaters and Lake Superior North watersheds. They will also support watershed gap monitoring and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) gage monitoring.

Cook
Recipient
Cook SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$149,985
Fund Source

This project will enable community partners to implement 5-10 shoreline erosion reduction best management projects that will reduce sediment and improve water quality of county lakes and streams. Preference will be given to properties within a watershed of a Total Maximum Daily Load study, properties on a sentinel lake, properties on lakes and streams with active associations, and projects ranking high in sediment reduction amount. Projects may include engineered erosion reduction Best Management Practices and/or plantings.

Cook
Recipient
Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$123,980
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,834
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to develop and complete the Watershed Restoration and Protection (WRAP) process and report, while also enlarging and sustaining a public participation process that encourages local ownership of water quality problems and solutions (civic engagement).
Civic engagement strategies including education public participation in watershed work and expanded knowledge, technical input into and review of stressor id process and report, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) reports, implementation plans and protecion strategies.

Cook
Lake
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$622,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$412,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$412,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$412,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$398,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$371,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$355,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$310,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,000
Fund Source

Coordinating with Partner's - A Parks and Trails Strategic Objective is a program area representing DNR's commitment to one of the four pillars identified in the 25 year Legacy plan. The Legacy plan identifies its purpose to enhance coordination across the large and complex network of public, private, and non-profit partners that support Minnesota's parks and trails to ensure seamless, enjoyable park and trail experiences for Minnesotans.

Statewide
Recipient
Washington County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$932,953
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,747
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,248
Fund Source

An existing shelter and restroom facility will be replaced by a new multi use building at Cottage Grove Ravine Regional Park. The building may include restrooms, storage space, multi-purpose lobby space, equipment staging area and fire ring.

Washington
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

The Cottonwood River watershed is one of the last remaining watersheds to complete Cycle I of the Watershed Restoration & Protections Strategies (WRAPS) process. The scope of this project upon completion is have two reports developed; a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies report and a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the entire watershed.

Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Pipestone
Redwood
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$303,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$365,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$390,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$390,000
Fund Source

The County Well Index (CWI) contains well and boring records wells within Minnesota; over 400,000 records. It is the principal source of well construction information and geologic interpretations of well records and also contains soil boring records, mineral exploration test hole records, and scientific/research test hole records.

Statewide
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,574,731
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,909,980
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,753,907
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,429,331
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,696,395
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,599,600
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,973,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,045,774
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,009,907
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,650,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,027,047
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) offers grants to counties for Subsurface Sewage Treatment System (SSTS) program administration and special projects to improve SSTS compliance rates, and assistance for low-income homeowners with needed SSTS upgrades. The MPCA will determine grant allocations based on applications review; funds will flow to counties through the Board of Water and Soil Resources' Natural Resources Block Grants.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$615,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$615,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Fund Source

The DNR works with the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) to convey valuable geologic and groundwater information and interpretations to government units at all levels, but particularly to local governments, private organizations and citizens. The MGS focuses on geology (Part A reports) and DNR focuses on groundwater (Part B reports). These provide useful information for projects completed by community planners, industry, agriculture, citizens and state agencies related to groundwater.

Statewide
Recipient
Sauk Centre Area History Museum and Research Center
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,797
Stearns
Recipient
Ramsey County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000
Fund Source

Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park build trail connection from Tamarack Nature Center to Otter Lake

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700,000
Fund Source

Through this grant, the Minnesota Land Trust protected approximately 8.25 miles of critical shoreland and 1,095 acres of high-quality fish and wildlife habitat in northeast Minnesota by securing four permanent conservation easements in strategic locations along priority lakes and rivers, exceeding our land protection goals by 332% and shoreland protection goals by 825%. Conservation easements secured under this program are perpetual and will prevent fragmentation and destruction of existing habitat.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Pine SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,400
Fund Source

This project will address impairments in the St. Croix, Kettle and Snake River Watersheds by reducing sediment and phosphorus delivery by encouraging private forest landowners within the St. Croix River Watershed in Pine County to re-establish riparian forest buffers, maintain existing riparian buffers and plant de-forested areas. It will develop a forest stewardship program and write forest stewardship plans in watersheds with the highest risk of impacts on water quality as listed by the Minnesota Forest Resources Council. This project will implement measures to achieve the St.

Pine
Recipient
Pine SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,800
Fund Source

This project will improve water quality, reducing phosphorus annually by 1,842 in the St. Croix, Kettle and Snake River Watersheds in Pine County by establishing cover crops to reduce erosion and phosphorus/fertilizer applications, increase soil fertility, permeability, and microbe activity. A no-till drill will be purchased for use by agricultural producers for installing cover crops as a means of decreasing soil erosion, reducing phosphorus and fertilizer applications and increasing soil health.

Pine
Recipient
St. Croix Scenic Coalition
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
To hire qualified professionals to produce a video series on the history of the St. Croix Scenic Byway.
Chisago
Pine
Washington
Recipient
Ramsey County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source

Battle Creek Regional Park establish wayfinding for cross-country ski trails at Battle Creek, Tamarack Nature Center and Grass-Vadnais-Snail Lakes Regional Park.

Ramsey
Recipient
Crow Wing County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$282,339
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Crow Wing
Recipient
Wright SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$143,625
Fund Source

The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with the Crow River Organization of Waters (CROW) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) on phase two of this comprehensive sediment reduction project to focus on stabilizing five of the most active gully erosion sites in targeted subwatersheds on the North Fork Crow River, as well as use the installed best management practices to help promote future conservation practices.

Wright
Recipient
Crow Wing County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,050
To hire a qualified consultant to develop design guidelines that will help preserve the Crow Wing County Jail and Sheriff's Residence, now used as the Crow Wing County Historical Society's museum facility, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Crow Wing
Recipient
Three Rivers Park District
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$370,000
Fund Source

The Crow-Hassan Prairie Complex Restoration and Enhancement restored 246 acres of prairie, 28 acres of forest and enhanced 500 acres of prairie within a larger prairie complex totalling 1200 acres.  This is the largest prairie complex in the metro area.  It will provide excellent breeding and nesting habitat for waterfowl, grassland birds, and other wildlife.

Hennepin
Recipient
Headwaters School of Music and the Arts AKA Headwaters Music and Arts
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

Cultural Traditions in the Arts Grant

Beltrami
Hennepin
Recipient
Red Lake Nation College
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

Cultural Traditions in the Arts Grant

Beltrami
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,875

During the 2016 Legislative Session, the Minnesota State Legislature asked the Minnesota Humanities, $75,000 the first year is for a grant to the city of St. Paul or Ramsey County to develop and install activity facilities in parks for Takraw courts that are reflective of the current demographics in Ramsey County. This grant is available if the recipient provides at least a 25 percent match for funding.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Lower Sioux Indian Community
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified historian to research the history of cultural and medicinal plants specific to the Lower Sioux Indian Community in southwestern Minnesota.
Redwood
Recipient
Eden Prairie Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Cummins-Phipps-Grill House, Eden Prairie.
Hennepin
Fund Source

This project converted 2-way mountain biking trail in the Cuyuna Country SRA to one-way trail near the Portsmouth Mine and Manuel Mine Lakes. This represents a substantial safety enhancement at the SRA.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Northeast Community Development Corporation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,072
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Statewide
Recipient
Dakhota Iapi
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,387

The goal of this project is to increase fluency and proficiency in the Dakhota language by creating a Dakhota Dictionary Mobile App that is linguistically accurate and widely accessible for both adult and youth language learners in the classroom and for individual study. The Dakhota Dictionary Mobile App will expand the Dakhota language lexical database's value as an archive preserving the Dakhota language, while presenting an accessible and vibrant new resource to a large and growing community of Dakhota language learners.

Hennepin
Recipient
Dakota Wicohan
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$202,810

Dakota Wicohan is excited that many are speaking the Dakota language on in the Upper and Lower Sioux Communities. Because of this, Dakota Wicohan has the opportunity to focus on a small, but significant, group of language learners-15 Dakota language speakers. The project goal is to strengthen the community's capacity to reclaim and revitalize their language by nurturing the language skills of 15 Dakota language leaders.

Recipient
Dassel Area Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,088
Meeker
Recipient
Minnesota Dragonfly Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,842
Statewide
Recipient
Scott County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$465,201
Fund Source

Maintenance shop development including demolition, design, engineering, and construction.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,674
Fund Source

Maintenance shop development including demolition, design, engineering, and construction.

Recipient
U of MN
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000

Each year Minnesota municipal wastewater treatment plants generate large amounts of oily scum, concentrated liquid called centrate, and sludge. These waste streams are disposed of either in landfills or by burning or subjected to additional treatment. However, new technologies have shown potential to capture resource values from these waste products while lowering the treatment costs for these waste streams.

Statewide
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate a Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) model for Minnesota portions of the Des Moines River watershed.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Recipient
Independent School District #659
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,015

To hire qualified professionals to publish a book on the history of Northfield Public Schools.

Dakota
Rice
Recipient
Carleton College
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,700
Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Washington County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$780,000
Fund Source

Design/build segment of Point Douglas Regional Trail (year 3 of 3)

Washington