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Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,200

To create 3 Winona County entries for the MNopedia project for online research.

Winona
Dakota
Goodhue
Houston
Ramsey
Wabasha
Recipient
MN Land Trust
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,690,000
Fund Source

Through this grant, the Minnesota Land Trust protected 641 acres and 39,415 feet (7.46 miles) of critical shoreland and high-quality wildlife habitats in Minnesota’s Northeast region through permanent conservation easements. Landowners donated $2,100,500 in easement value through this grant, greatly leveraging by 131% the $1,609,000 in grant funding provided by the Outdoor Heritage Fund. The amount of shoreland protected exceeded that proposed for the grant by 299%.

Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
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
Recipient
Crow Wing County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,450
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,326
Fund Source

The project will include lake monitoring on seventeen lakes found in the Mississippi River - Brainerd watershed in East Central Crow Wing County (CWC). The project will be conducted in an effort to gain data on these data-deficient lakes. One of the goals of the CWC Local Comprehensive Water Plan (CWP) is to establish a countywide Comprehensive Monitoring Plan (CMP). Surface water assessment monitoring will enable state 303(d) and 305(b) assessments and provide a better understanding of these lakes.

Aitkin
Crow Wing
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,038
Fund Source

This project will conduct a 2017 revision of the South Fork Crow River, North Fork Crow River and Sauk River Watershed Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) models and review of the Pine River Watershed HSPF model.

Aitkin
Carver
Cass
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Meeker
Pope
Renville
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wright
Recipient
Wright SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$189,750
Fund Source

The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District has partnered with the Crow River Organization of Water and the Natural Resources Conservation Service on phase three of a comprehensive sediment reduction project that focuses on stabilizing seven of the most active gully erosion sites on the North Fork Crow River. These seven areas were chosen due to the high level of turbidity and low dissolved oxygen within that stretch of the North Fork Crow River, which has led to biological and turbidity impairments.

Wright
Recipient
Wright SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$270,000
Fund Source

The Wright Soil and Water Conservation District (Wright SWCD) has partnered with the Crow River Organization of Waters (CROW), the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Wright County Planning and Zoning on this bacterial impairment reduction project to bring feedlot operations into compliance in the targeted North Fork Crow River (NFCR) impaired Unnamed Creek watershed. An analysis of the NFCR TMDL for Bacteria, Nutrients, and Turbidity was done to determine the area to be prioritized for further review of livestock operations in order to reduce the E.

Wright
Recipient
Blue Earth County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$374,500
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to reduce phosphorus loading to Crystal Lake transported primarily through County Ditch 56. Crystal Lake is listed on MPCA's 303d listing for phosphorus impairment. Increased phosphorus levels have caused toxic algal blooms, reducing its appeal to recreationalists and economic draw for the City of Lake Crystal. This project will directly address phosphorus sources from agricultural land.

Blue Earth
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$123,000
Fund Source

Continue Implementation of adopted Master Plan to include a splash pad (small artistic interactive water feature with year-round interest.) Indian Mounds hosts approximately 344,000 visits annually, including 13% of both African Americans and Asians, and 3% Native Americans.

Ramsey
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$539,000
Fund Source

Continue Implementation of adopted Master Plan to include a splash pad (small artistic interactive water feature with year-round interest.) Indian Mounds hosts approximately 344,000 visits annually, including 13% of both African Americans and Asians, and 3% Native Americans.

Ramsey
Recipient
City of Eden Prairie
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,650

To contract with qualified professionals to prepare planning documents that will help preserve the Cummins-Phipps-Grill House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Hennepin
Recipient
City of Falcon Heights
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,136

To design, produce, and install two historical markers at Curtiss Field, City of Falcon Heights.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,637
This mobile tour offers intriguing stories and reflections about historic sites along the Minnesota River Valley, the people who lived there and the lasting impact of the U.S. Dakota War of 1862.
Statewide
Recipient
Steele County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified engineer to develop an engineering report for the Daniel S. Piper House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Steele
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$520,000
Becker
Big Stone
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Rock
Roseau
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Wadena
Watonwan
Wilkin
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Golden Valley Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$139,950

To hire qualified consultants to develop and install permanent exhibits at Golden Valley Historical Society.

Hennepin
Recipient
Washington County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$182,198
Fund Source

Design/build segment of Point Douglas Regional Trail (year 2 of 3)

Washington
Recipient
Washington County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$315,109
Fund Source

Design/build segment of Point Douglas Regional Trail (year 2 of 3)

Washington
Recipient
Carver County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$284,000
Fund Source

Construct 2.1 miles of paved trail between First Street in the City of Chaska and County Road 40 in the City of Carver on the Minnesota River Bluffs Regional Trail.

Carver
Recipient
Anoka County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$325,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$41,012
Fund Source

Design, engineer & reconstruct parking, trails & retaining wall at Islands of Peace.

Anoka
Recipient
Dakota County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$370,000
Fund Source

Design, engineer and construct 2 miles of trail from 117th Street E. to Pine Bend Trail in Rosemount.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$475,000
Fund Source

Design, engineer and construct segment of the trail including grade separated crossing at Hwy 110 and Dodd Road intersection and a connection to Valley Park.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$245,000
Fund Source

Design, engineer and construct segment of the trail including grade separated crossing at Hwy 110 and Dodd Road intersection and a connection to Valley Park.

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$925,000
Fund Source

Design and construction of Tamarack Nature Center Campus Site and Infrastructure consisting of parking lot and roadway redevelopment, storm water management, pedestrian connections, landscape restoration, signage, and other site amenities at Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park; supplement construction cost for Early Childhood Learning Center Project; supplement construction cost for the Tamarack Nature Center Interior Remodel project. *(There were 99,352 visits to the Tamarack Nature Center in Bald Eagle Otter Lake Regional Park in 2013).

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$194,000
Fund Source

Design and construction of Tamarack Nature Center Campus Site and Infrastructure consisting of parking lot and roadway redevelopment, storm water management, pedestrian connections, landscape restoration, signage, and other site amenities at Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park; supplement construction cost for Early Childhood Learning Center Project; supplement construction cost for the Tamarack Nature Center Interior Remodel project. *(There were 99,352 visits to the Tamarack Nature Center in Bald Eagle Otter Lake Regional Park in 2013).

Ramsey
Recipient
Dakota County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,000
Fund Source

Design, engineer and construct 2 miles of trail adjacent to Hwy 13 from I-494 to approximately Lone Oak Road.

Dakota
Recipient
Dakota County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$127,325
Fund Source

Design, engineer and construct tunnel to provide grade separated crossing of regional greenway to 157th Street in Apple Valley.

Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$617,131
Fund Source

Phase 1 Design/Development Trailhead Rice Ck No RT, bituminous and natural surface trails, trailhead building with restrooms, entrance road and parking lot development, cross country ski staging area and trails, signage, storm water management, habitat restoration, landscaping.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
Fund Source

Design, engineer, and reconstruct the trail bridge between Nicollet Island and BF Nelson Park. The bridge is a crucial trail link along the Mississippi River

Hennepin
Recipient
Anoka County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$438,000
Fund Source

Design, engineer, build 2 accessible outdoor gathering spaces at the Bunker Hills Regional Park Activities Center

Anoka
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11
Fund Source

Design, engineering and construction of pedestrian and vehicular circulation and parking. Includes grading, stormwater management and erosion control.

Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,529
Fund Source

Design, engineering and construction of pedestrian and vehicular circulation and parking. Includes grading, stormwater management and erosion control.

Recipient
U of MN - Duluth NRRI
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$334,000
Statewide
Recipient
Judy Garland Children's Museum
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Gumm historic house (Judy Garland Museum).

Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Itasca
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900

To hire professionals to assess and write a collections plan for a historically significant collection, which will allow greater public access to this resource.

Hennepin
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified consultant to write an exhibit plan on the importance of water in Dakota history in Minnesota.

Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Pennington
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
St. Louis
Scott
Sibley
Steele
Todd
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Tower-Soudan Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified consultant to develop architectural drawings for the Tower Fire Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Statewide
St. Louis
Recipient
Caponi Art Park
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,295

To assess and better organize the archival collections held by Caponi Art Park.

Statewide
Dakota
Recipient
Ramsey County
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,352
Fund Source

Develop a mountain bike trail master plan and initiate implementation of mountain bike trail improvements consistent with the master plan. ( There were 761,900 visits to Battle Creek Regional Park in 2013).

Ramsey
Recipient
U of MN
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$509,000
Statewide