All Projects

5153 Results for
Recipient
US Geological Survey
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

We propose to develop a genetic control tool that exploits the natural process of RNA silencing to effectively control zebra mussels without affecting other species.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000

Solar windows are a disruptive photovoltaic technology that virtually invisibly integrates with buildings. This renewable energy technology will increase photovoltaics adoption, reduce air pollution, and ameliorate climate change.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

This project is to develop cheap clean solar energy by simple roll-to-roll manufacturing. Perovskite is a new photovoltaic material, very economical while maintaining high power conversion efficiency.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$310,000

A biodegradable product will be developed to replace non-degradable petroleum based plastic used in vegetable and fruit production. This project, if funded, will revolutionize horticulture in Minnesota, and potentially worldwide.

Statewide
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000

Design and evaluate 10 market-based scenarios for perennial cropping systems and their potential to improve water quality and provide wildlife habitat. Create awareness through thought-provoking videos, fact sheets, and presentations.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Develop strategies and practical tools to identify conditions that minimize impacts to soil across a wide range of conditions to promote regeneration of diverse forests, wildlife habitat, and timber availability.

Statewide
Recipient
St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Railroad Authority
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000

3.5 mile long bituminous surface trail beginning at the intersection of Hwy 169 and County Road 88 to Ely. In Ely, connection will be made to existing Mesabi Trail.

St. Louis
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,890

To support the development and restructuring of regional history groups.

Becker
Brown
Carlton
Clay
Cook
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
St. Louis
Sibley
Steele
Stevens
Traverse
Wabasha
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Statewide
Recipient
Ramsey County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
Fund Source

Develop and implement nature and outdoor recreation programming for people of color and lower income levels throughout Ramsey County Regional Parks and Trails system.

Ramsey
Recipient
Caponi Art Park
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,261
To hire a consultant to help write a collections plan in order to improve collections care and management.
Statewide
Dakota
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$294,875
In FYs14 and 15, MNHS completed production of the Dred Scott Curriculum Kit and development of the Lumberjack Math Curriculum Kit. * The Dred Scott curriculum kit uses videos and primary source activities that tell the story of slavery in Minnesota in the 19th century. The kit was produced at the end of FY14 and is currently being marketed to middle- and high-school teachers across the state. * The Lumberjack Math Curriculum Kit uses math and primary sources to teaching about the logging industry in late-19th century Minnesota. The kit is will be produced in summer 2015.
Statewide
Recipient
AirSpace Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,200
Partner Organizations: Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame, Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation, Minnesota Aviation History and Education Center, and Northwest Airlines History Centre AirSpace Minnesota (a coalition of independent aviation and aerospace organizations) worked to develop a formal partnership among organizations with similar missions to engage in long-range, strategic planning for coordinating future projects.
Statewide
Recipient
Winona State University
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,925

To digitize and preserve items representing the ecologic history of the Driftless Area in Minnesota, create a map from 1862 data, and conduct an interpretive program.

Statewide
Winona
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$491,434
Increasing the public's online access to the Minnesota Historical Society's permanent collection remains a top priority of the Collections Department. ACHF collections assistants continued to increase public access to the MNHS collection through the digitization of over 1,300 additional records published to our online database in FY14. In FY15, over 1,500 additional records were digitized and published to the database. These items focused primarily on American Indian material culture, World War I and recent acquisitions.
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$556,428
In FY14-15, the newspaper team continued work on the newspaper hub, increasing functionality and improving the web interface. The test version of the newspaper hub is available on workstations at the Gale Family Library and also on the web at www.mnhs.org/newspapers. MNHS negotiated with the Department of Education to add approximately 275,000 pages of the historic Minneapolis Tribune to the hub.
Statewide
Recipient
Duluth Public Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
St. Louis
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,621
Murray
Recipient
Preserve Historic Dinkytown
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,658
Hennepin
Recipient
Taylor Township
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Traverse
Recipient
North Hennepin Pioneer Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Hennepin
Recipient
Sauk River WD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,350
Fund Source

The Sauk River Watershed District (SRWD) is the drainage authority for Stearns and Pope Counties. The SRWD manages 12 public drainage systems totaling over 90 miles. The majority of the public systems provide drainage for agricultural land uses and were constructed in the early 1900s.

Pope
Stearns
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$282,624
Partners: Minnesota Humanities Center for Indian Fellows; Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) for Summer Technology Workshop MNHS is working to serve Twin Cities area schools with increasingly diverse demographics. Staff members provide support services for students competing in National History Day in Minnesota and American Indian History Day. In addition, MNHS promotes and recruits diverse students for programs that engage participants in history. Two of these programs are the American Indian Museum Fellowship Program and the Summer History Immersion Program.
Statewide
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,786,000
Fund Source

Acquire 470 acres of high priority habitat for designation as Wildlife Management Area (Prairie Planning Section) or Scientific and Natural Area (Prairie, and Northern Forest Planning Sections) emphasizing Prairie Conservation Plan implementation and coordination with partners. All lands will be open for public hunting and fishing (a limited number of SNA’s are proposed for limited hunting for instance archery only or hunting but no trapping). Accomplishments are based on $5,000 per acre average and should be considered a minimum estimate.

Becker
Brown
Cook
Cottonwood
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Murray
Norman
Renville
Rice
Stearns
Yellow Medicine
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

This program provides critical assistance to MN DNR Parks and Trails Division Regional and District offices to assist with renewal and rehabilitation efforts prioritized locally by field staff. Projects include the following types: State Park Building and Facilities Emergency Repair and Maintenance, Paved Trail Maintenance and Asset Preservation, and State Park and State Forest Trail Renewal. This project is a newly reorganized budget area that consolidates these three smaller project areas reported on in previous years.

Statewide
Recipient
DNR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,250,000
Fund Source

DNR completed nine stream habitat projects with this appropriation. Four fish passage projects opened up access to 180 miles of river and 13,521 acres of lake and wetland habitat. We enhanced habitat on 39 Aquatic Management Areas, totalling 1440 acres, through the efforts of four positions funded by this appropriation. It also funded two stream habitat positions that oversaw the completion of 23 DNR projects and over 50 partner-lead projects funded by various OHF sources.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Fillmore
Hubbard
Itasca
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Martin
Meeker
Morrison
Otter Tail
Polk
Renville
Rice
Rock
St. Louis
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
DNR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,783,400
Fund Source

Work resulting from this appropriation resulted in the acquisition, development, and inclusion of 2,095 acres into the state Wildlife Management Area (WMA) system, 74 acres into the the state Scientific and Natural Area system, and through easement acquisition added 387 acres to the state Native Prairie Bank.

Becker
Brown
Clearwater
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Pennington
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wadena
Wilkin
Wright
Recipient
DNR
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,220,000
Fund Source

The following table provides a short summary of the accomplishments under this appropriation.  In total, the DNR enhanced and restored 283 sites for a total of 17,087 acres.  

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
Marshall
Martin
Nobles
Norman
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Roseau
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Wabasha
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,834,000
Fund Source

This DNR Aquatic Habitat appropriation used a programmatic approach to achieve prioritized aquatic habitat restoration, and enhancement of lakes and streams across all the LSOHC planning regions. Two stream restoration projects totaling 23 acres were completed with this appropriation. Also, habitat enhancement projects were completed on 43 Aquatic Management Areas, totaling 849 acres. Stream habitat work for this appropriation and LSOHC-funded projects from other appropriations was aided by funding for a stream restoration coordinator and interns.

Becker
Carver
Cass
Chisago
Crow Wing
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Pine
Pope
Redwood
Scott
St. Louis
Wabasha
Wright
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,007,000
Fund Source

We restored and enhanced a total of 15,577 grassland acres with 239 projects on Wildlife Management Areas, Scientific and Natural Areas, and Native Prairie Bank easements.

Aitkin
Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$642,000
Fund Source

Through this appropriation MN DNR was able to acquire 115 aces of permanent trout stream conservation easements, nearly doubling the AP goal of 62 acres. This amounts to over seven miles of protected shoreline. We were able to nearly fully send the appropriation. All the acquired easements are now open to public angling and are locate in SE and NE Minnesota. This appropriation also included a contribution to the Conservation Stewardship Account.

Carlton
Fillmore
Houston
St. Louis
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Illusion Theater and School, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,850
To document in up to 18 interviews the history of child abuse in Minnesota, which historically has been a leader in providing relief from such abuse.
Statewide
Recipient
Douglas Soil and Water Conservation District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,103
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,560
Fund Source

This project will provide timely surface water quality data from waters of concern to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). This data will be analyzed and compared to historic data from the same sampling locations. All locations are in the Douglas County portion of the Chippewa River Watershed. Sampling locations include six lakes: Little Chippewa, Devils, Moon, Moses, South Oscar, and Stowe; and one stream site: County Ditch 60.

Douglas
Fund Source

This project replaced bridge #4 on the Douglas State Trail. A grant from the Federal Recreation Trail Program contributed funding towards this project, and leveraged the Legacy funding.

Olmsted
Recipient
City of Waseca
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To hire a qualified consultant to create historic preservation design guidelines for the City of Waseca.
Waseca
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,100,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,020,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,020,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$744,717
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,291
Fund Source

The Drinking Water Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) program identifies environmental contaminants for which current health-based standards currently do not exist or need to be updated, investigate the potential for human exposure to these chemicals, and develop guidance values for drinking water. Contaminants evaluated by CEC staff include contaminants that have been released or detected in Minnesota waters (surface water and groundwater) or that have the potential to migrate to or be detected in Minnesota waters.

Statewide
Recipient
Fillmore SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$269,356
Fund Source

This project will provide cost-share funds to landowners in vulnerable groundwater areas for the incorporation of cover crops in their crop rotation and to provide education related to nitrogen BMPs through field trials and Nutrient Management Plans. An anticipated 100 producers in highly vulnerable areas, will plant 3,000 acres of cover crops resulting in preventing potentially 19,800 pounds of nitrate from leaching into groundwater.

Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
McLeod County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,100
To hire a qualified professional to construct an appropriate support for a significant collections piece.
Statewide
McLeod
Meeker
Recipient
Tetra Tech
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$113,539
Fund Source

Four beaches along the North Shore of Lake Superior and within the Duluth Harbor have aquatic recreation impairments due to high concentrations of E. coli, a bacterial indicator of fecal contamination. The project area includes portions of the Lake Superior South and St. Louis River watersheds near Duluth. Several of the beaches are also listed as impaired for beneficial use (due to fecal bacteria) as part of the St. Louis River Area of Concern.

St. Louis
Recipient
City of Duluth
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,966
Fund Source

Several streams within the Duluth metropolitan area are identified as impaired and are included on Minnesota’s Impaired Waters List, with impairments to Aquatic Recreation, due to levels of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria. Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies have been completed (draft) for these impairments, including Keene Creek and Tischer Creek. The goal of this project  is for the City of Duluth to provide the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) with information on the sources of E.

St. Louis
Recipient
University of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,081
Fund Source

This project continues the total maximum daily load (TMDL) and watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS) process for the Duluth Metropolitan Area (DMA).  The DMA is defined by water, sitting at the juncture of Lake Superior and the St. Louis River Estuary, and surrounded by semi-mountainous terrain. The project serves as a bridge into the next phase of restoration and protection identified by the Duluth Urban Stream TMDLs and WRAPS. In the first phase of community engagement, a collaborating organization was formed to define a framework for the DMA communities.

St. Louis