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TuckUnder Projects
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Twin Cities Housing Development Corporation
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Ramsey
Recipient
Twin Cities Labor Chorus
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Ramsey
Recipient
Twin Cities Polish Festival
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Twin Cities Youth Chorale
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Upper Midwest Flute Association, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Ramsey
Recipient
The Urban Spectrum Theatre Company
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Valley Friendship Club
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,515
Community Arts
Washington
Recipient
Velvet Tones
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Dakota
Recipient
Voice of Culture Drum and Dance
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Hennepin
Recipient
Vox Nova Chorale
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts
Ramsey
Recipient
Waconia Community Education
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Community Arts
Carver
Recipient
Isanti County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,937
To provide storage that meets museum standards through purchase of compressible shelving for collections documenting Isanti County history.
Statewide
Isanti
Recipient
William M. Kelley High School
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,008
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,008

Publication, in book format, of a narrative history of a "company town," Silver Bay, Minnesota, based on interviews with longtime residents (interviews and transcriptions funded by a previous Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund grant) and on interviews previously collected by the Bay Area Historical Society.  

Lake
Recipient
Dakota County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,675
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,000
Fund Source

Complete Phase 2 improvements to Whitetail Woods Regional Park (year 1 of 2)

Dakota
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Complete important Como RP access road, Estabrook Drive, and related infrastructure, lighting, landscape restoration. Park hosts approximately 4,476,000 visits annually, representing people from many backgrounds.

Ramsey
Recipient
Friends of B'nai Abraham Synagogue
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,438
To hire qualified professionals to restore portions of the interior window trim and balcony of B'nai Abraham Synagogue, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
St. Louis
Recipient
MIGIZI Communications
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,490
To complete research on the impact of the Federal Urban Indian Relocation Program in Minneapolis.
Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Goodhue
Hennepin
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Recipient
Minnesota Military Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,061
To complete the inventory of the only statewide collection documenting Minnesota military history under the direction of a qualified museum objects curator.
Statewide
Recipient
Olmsted County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,790
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Olmsted
Recipient
Carver County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,500
To acquire professional services to prepare an interpretive plan for public access to history and cultural heritage of the Andrew Peterson Farmstead, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Carver
Statewide
Recipient
City of Rochester
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,700

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a condition assessment of the Henry S. Plummer House water tower, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Olmsted
Recipient
Islamic Center of Winona
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

The Islamic Center of Winona (71 West 3rd Street) is part of the Third Street Commercial Historic District in the city of Winona and contains ninety-one buildings (65 contributing, 26 non-contributing)and one vacant lot (noncontributing). According to the 1917 Sanborn map of Winona, this building was originally a bank.

Winona
Recipient
City of Walters
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a condition assessment of the Walters Jail, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Faribault
Recipient
All Saints Episcopal Church
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of All Saints Episcopal Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Rice
Recipient
City of Pipestone
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the Pipestone Historic Water Tower, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Pipestone
Recipient
Lake Harriet Spiritual Community
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the Lake Harriet Methodist Episcopal Church, eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
Hennepin
Recipient
Hamline Church United Methodist
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to write a conditions assessment of Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Carver County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$294,000
Fund Source

Minnesota River Bluffs Regional Trail, fund trail and bridge construction.

Carver
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$503,726
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$403,780
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$345,140
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,406
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$335,347
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$452,466
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$433,189
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$311,005
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$493,555
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$266,707
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$274,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$182,750
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$182,750
Fund Source

Connecting People to the Outdoors - 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 better develop Minnesota's stewards of tomorrow through efforts to increase life-long participation in parks and trails. The purpose of this program is to call attention to the pillar, but also to centralize and streamline reporting on other related programs within the pillar.

Statewide
Recipient
Shingle Creek WMC
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

This project is the ecological restoration of 1,400 feet of Shingle Creek, an Impaired Water for low dissolved oxygen and impaired biota, in Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park. The Shingle Creek Impaired Biota and Dissolved Oxygen Total Maximum Daily Load requires sediment oxygen demand load reductions and establishes restoration design standards to enhance habitat that will be incorporated into this project.

Hennepin
Recipient
Minnesota Zoo
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,144,354
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$677,621

Educating Minnesotans about conservation issues and how they can engage in conservation activities is critical to the stewardship of our state’s natural resources. Legacy funds have been used to create new programs and expand existing activities to bring zoo guests and citizens statewide in close contact with animals and demonstrate the ways people can participate in conservation in their own backyard. Program highlights include:

Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,645

To hire a qualified conservator to restore a significant object in the museum's collections.

Washington
Recipient
Polish Cultural Institute
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,540

To hire a qualified conservator to restore a significant object in the museum's collections.

Winona
Recipient
Caponi Art Park
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,980

To hire a qualified museum consultant to conduct a preservation needs assessment for the Caponi Art Park sculptures.

Dakota
Recipient
Public Art Saint Paul
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

To hire a qualified conservator to restore a significant monument in St. Paul.

Ramsey
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,500,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,729,000
Statewide
Recipient
Saint Johns University
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
Stearns
Recipient
MN DNR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

The purchase of conservation easements—restrictions on land use that protect natural features while keeping land in private ownership—has proven to be an effective means to protect land at a lower initial cost than full state ownership. However, once an easement is purchased there are ongoing stewardship, monitoring, and enforcement responsibilities necessary to ensure the terms of the agreement between the easement holder and the landowner are met.

Statewide
Recipient
Board of Water and Soil Resources
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000,000

Enrollment of private lands in conservation programs can provide important natural resource and other public benefits by taking the lands out of production so that they can provide various wildlife, water quality, and ecological benefits. This appropriation is enabling the Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources to continue to provide grants to local soil and water conservation districts for employment of technical staff to assist private landowners in implementing conservation programs.

Statewide