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Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$197,000

Building on the exhibit development community engagement process carried through three successive Legacy grants, the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota used the 2013 direct appropriation to prepare for and begin building exhibit components for its permanent facility by combining professional museum expertise with local resources, volunteers, and community involvement.

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Winona State Foundation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,950

The final edit, of a manuscript describing the work of women of the Eastern bands of the Dakota Nation, was prepared by the author/project director for submission to the Minnesota Historical Society Press for publication.

The story of how contact and conflict with Europeans and European Americans, war and forced relocation changed how these women retained the knowledge and traditions of their grandmothers is tied to the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862 and carries forward to today.

Winona
Recipient
Faribault County SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,430
Fund Source

The Faribault County Soil and Water Conservation District Drainage Engineer will inventory public drainage ditches to identify priority systems and areas where erosion, sediment, and nutrients contribute to water quality degradation. Sites identified for potential side inlet control, buffer strip need, or water storage will be prioritized for landowner contact and follow through by seeking external funding opportunities.

Faribault
Recipient
Faribault County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,274
Fund Source

Working with a consultant, a current online database to manage public drainage systems will be enhanced and a corresponding mobile inspection app will be developed to facilitate drainage compliance and improve inspection planning. With these improvements, a long-term, comprehensive, GIS-compatible database will be in place to help plan, collect, document, summarize, and analyze system condition, repair needs, and violations with the overall goal of protecting and improving water quality.

Faribault
Recipient
City Of Faribault
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

to construct a trail from the North Alexander Park on the East at Two Rivers Park and on the West at the railroad tracks, including an underpass connection under Second Avenue

Rice
Recipient
Swift County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,590
To document in 18 interviews the story of farming in Swift County, 1950-2000
Swift
Recipient
Farmer Labor Education Committee
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,760
To hire a qualified consultant to compile a resource guide on the history of the Farmer Labor Party.
Ramsey
Recipient
Farmers Legal Action Group, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
Recipient
City of Howard Lake
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,560
To hire a qualified consultant to write a feasibility study for Howard Lake City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Wright
Recipient
Rourke Art Gallery Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
To hire an architect to write a Historic Structure Report to guide future restoration of the 1915 Federal Courthouse and Post Office, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, now the Rourke Art Museum.
Clay
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,436,888
Fund Source

Currently, there are approximately 5,050 feedlots with fewer than 300 animal units that need to come into compliance with State feedlot rules. Clean Water Feedlot Water Quality Management Grant funds are being used to provide financial assistance to landowners with feedlot operations less than 300 animal units in size and located in a riparian area or impaired watershed.

Anoka
Brown
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Lyon
Mower
Nobles
Olmsted
Pope
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Olmsted County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,569

Local television station (KTTC) donated 485 BETA videos and 557 16mm films to the History Center of Olmsted County. New storage methods and materials were implemented to preserve and stabilize these donations. The historic collection was sorted, organized and rehoused into archival containers which were then labeled, cataloged and entered into a Past Perfect database.

This valuable resource, now stored in the HCOC research library, has been made more accessible to the public.

Olmsted
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,944
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Elms were once a very widespread tree in Minnesota and amongst the most common and popular in urban landscapes due to their size, shading capability, and tolerance of pollution and other stresses. Over the past five decades, though, Dutch elm disease, an exotic and invasive pathogen, has killed millions of elms throughout the state. However, scientists at the University of Minnesota have observed that some elms have survived the disease and appear to have special characteristics that make them resistant to Dutch elm disease.

Statewide
Recipient
City of Stillwater (Fire Department)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an
Washington
Recipient
Division of Indian Work
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$102,785

-Increase knowledge for 69 American Indian youth ages 7-17 through practice of conversational Dakota
-Build the foundation for youth to grow to become fluent speakers
-Improve proficiency of Dakota language learners by the end of 12 months

Recipient
Twin Cities Public Television
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,624
To translate Dakota and Ojibwe interviews documenting language preservation and revitalization efforts in Minnesota.
Ramsey
Recipient
Cottonwood and Jackson SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$255,900
Fund Source

Fish Lake is a headwater of the Watonwan River. The lake is a regionally known fishery due to its unusual depth >20', lack of a mud bottom, and a naturally reproducing smallmouth bass fishery. The watershed has many tile drainage systems that are a source of nutrients to the lake. Woodchip bioreactors will be installed to reduce nitrogen from all tile outlets entering Fish Lake. This will help achieve the goal of a 40% reduction in Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) in the Minnesota River.

Cottonwood
Jackson
Recipient
Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$155,000

The number of people from other cultures and languages is increasing in Minnesota. It is important that they learn the behaviors that will help Minnesota preserve and enhance its natural resources. Yet, communicating and effectively interacting with people across cultures to change behaviors on natural resources, conservation, pollution prevention and stewardship is challenging. Most environmental information is designed for reaching native English readers. Translating and printing information often does not reach the intended audiences, who are often part of an oral culture.

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
University of Minnesota: James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,493
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,307
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,572
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$900
Fund Source

The Bell Museum will sort and identify all fish samples collected by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) North and South Biological Monitoring Units. The Bell Museum of Natural History (Bell Museum) will provide professional fish Identification expertise to the MPCA fish voucher program, while also helping the Bell Museum annually update their fish distribution map for the State of Minnesota. As the MPCA samples and vouchers species of significance, the Bell Museum shall catalog these species into their official fish collection.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$545,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$455,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$132,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
Fund Source

The DNR works with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Health to determine the level of contamination from mercury and other harmful chemicals in fish from Minnesota's lakes and rivers and to track the success of efforts to reduce mercury pollution. Clean Water Legacy funding is being used to significantly increase (more than double) the number of lakes and rivers that are assessed for mercury contamination on an annual basis. Fish are collected during DNR fishery surveys, processed for laboratory testing, and analyzed for contaminants.

Statewide
Recipient
Florence Township
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
To hire a qualified professional to write an exterior building assessment of the Florence Town Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Goodhue
Recipient
Elizabeth M. Bucheit AKA Liz Bucheit
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Dodge
Fillmore
Hennepin
Olmsted
Winona
Recipient
Jennifer L. Carrere AKA Jennifer Licko
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,933

Folk and Traditional Arts

Beltrami
McLeod
Ramsey
Winona
Recipient
Dakota Wicohan
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$66,232

Folk and Traditional Arts

Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Hong G. Dice AKA Gao Hong
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,177

Folk and Traditional Arts

Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
Winona
Recipient
The Ethnic Dance Theatre
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,029

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Hamline University
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,746

Folk and Traditional Arts

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Ann K. Heymann
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,800

Folk and Traditional Arts

Goodhue
Lyon
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Roseau
Stearns
Steele
St. Louis
Recipient
Hmong Cultural Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Ramsey
Recipient
Katha Dance Theatre
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Carver
Cook
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Wright
Recipient
Debra L. Korluka
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Pan Asian Arts Alliance
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Clearwater
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Lyon
Olmsted
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Pooja G. Pavan AKA Pooja Pavan
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Project FINE
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Winona
Recipient
Ranee A. Ramaswamy
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
Scott
Washington
Recipient
The Russian Soul AKA Russian Cultural Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Somali Artifact and Cultural Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Tango Teacher Co-op
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Goodhue
Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
Bee X. Yang
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Folk and Traditional Arts

Anoka
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey