Rental fishing equipment has been made available in 30 of Minnesota's state parks. The rental equipment is free of charge for anyone to use and provides all visitors to take part in one of Minnesota's favorite past times.
The "Kids Discovery Kits" were designed to provide park visitors with a fun, hands-on, educational activity to do while visiting a state park. Each kit contains a variety of activities ranging from camp skills, to guided discover, to nature exploration.
This project will create a high accuracy elevation dataset - critical for effectively planning and implementing water quality projects - for the state of Minnesota using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and geospatial mapping technologies. Although some areas of the state have been mapped previously, many counties remain unmapped or have insufficient or inadequate data. This multi-year project, to be completed in 2012, is a collaborative effort of Minnesota's Digital Elevation Committee and partners with county surveyors to ensure accuracy with ground-truthing.
The Minnesota County Biological Survey (MCBS) is an ongoing effort begun in 1987 by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that is systematically surveying, county-by-county, the state's natural habitats. The effort identifies significant natural areas and collects and interprets data on the status, distribution, and ecology of plants, animals, and native plant communities throughout the state. Through 2009 surveys have been completed in 74 of Minnesota's 87 counties and have added nearly 17,000 new records of rare features to the DNR's information systems.
Millstream Arts Festival has been the premier juried arts festival in Central Minnesota for over 20 years. While there are numerous other craft shows and community festivals, Millstream has the unique goal of artists directly interacting with the public in a festival atmosphere.
The Qhia Dab Neeg (storytelling) Film Festival is a celebration of Hmong storytelling that carries with it the intent of honoring the history, tradition, and culture of the Hmong through the art of film and video.
To produce the 19th Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival (September 2010), featuring Minnesota storytellers with national master storytellers, folklorists, and scholars.
Pangea's Cultivate Our Cultures is a one-day free festival celebrating the rich cultural diversity in the Moorhead-Fargo community which showcases the music, dance, and storytelling as well as cultural crafts, customs, and cuisine of a variety of countries.
The Clean Water Fund and OHF were used together to secure easements on buffer areas. Seven easements were recorded for a total of 606.5 acres. These acres represent 303.1 acres funded by OHF and 303.4 acres funded by non-OHF sources. Only the OHF acres are being reported in this final report to be consistent with the approved accomplishment plan.
Minnesota Trout Unlimited enhanced in-stream and riparian habitat for trout and other wildlife along coldwater streams located on public lands and Aquatic Management Area easements across the state. We completed 12 separate projects encompassing 118 acres and 9.3 miles of stream habitat. Leveraging other funding and efficiently contracting projects allowed us to increase the scope of some projects and adjust to changing conditions. We enhanced more acres of habitat and more stream length than originally proposed.
RIM Buffers Phase 1 combined the resource benefits of the Outdoor Heritage Fund (LSOHC), Clean Water Fund (CWF), and bond funds. This program exceeded our acreage goal by 439 acres (37%), enrolling a total of 1,595.4 acres of enhanced wildlife and water quality buffers in partnership with private landowners on 46 easements.
Goals for Phase 2 of the MN Prairie Recovery Program were to: protect 1200 acres native prairie/savanna; restore 250 acres grassland; enhance 6000 acres grassland/savanna with fire, invasive species removal, and grazing; and continue a new prairie conservation model.
