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Recipient
Friends of the Immigration History Research Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,794
To research immigrant strategies for community creation in the Twin Cities prior to World War II in eleven distinct neighborhoods.
Hennepin
Recipient
Houston County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase and enhance arts and cultural heritage programming at the Houston County Fair. Funds will be used to upgrade an existing stage, install a display case to exhibit artistic and creative works of people with disabilities, and host the Minnesota Scandinavian Ensemble. The Ensemble will educate children and families about Scandinavian music and dances.

Houston
Recipient
Houston Engineering
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,996
Fund Source

This project will continue to develop, and calibrate/validate the hydrology of an HSPF watershed model for the Thief River watershed. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. An initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval. The consultant will produce an HSPF watershed model that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs.

Beltrami
Marshall
Pennington
Roseau
Recipient
Shell Prairie Agriculture Association

To engage the residents of Hubbard County in the arts and encourage them to exhibit their work in the Open Class Building. Funds will additionally be used to restore the one room school house.

Hubbard
Recipient
Marshall County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$94,180

To hire qualified technicians to upgrade Marshall County Historical Society's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.

Marshall
Recipient
McLeod County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$363,892

To hire qualified technicians to upgrade McLeod County Historical Society's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.

McLeod
Statewide
Recipient
Lac qui Parle County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,700

To hire qualified technicians to provide designs for Lac qui Parle County Historical Society's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Springfield Area Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Brown
Recipient
Cook County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the North Superior Lifeboat Station Lightkeeper's House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and current home of the Cook County Historical Society.

Cook
Recipient
Pope County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,391
To install climate control that meets museum standards in order to better preserve collections that document Pope County history.
Pope
Recipient
Aqua Terra Consultants
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,238
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,980
Fund Source

This project will continue HSPF watershed model construction beyond the initial framework development. The consultant will add representation of point source discharges to the model. The consultant will also compile flow data for the purposes of calibration and validation. Finally, an initial hydrologic calibration will be performed and submitted for approval.

Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Aqua Terra Consultants
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$93,802
Fund Source

This project will complete a guidance document for the construction of Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models which are intended to support MPCA Watershed programmatic activities. It will also customize and populate a national HSPF parameter database with values from Minnesota HSPF model applications. This enhanced database will expedite the future construction of HSPF models as well as increase the consistency among HSPF model applications in Minnesota.

Statewide
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,950

To assemble historic resources necessary to complement a traveling exhibit about emergency response.

Hennepin
Recipient
Firefighter's Hall and Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit about the Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse for the fifth anniversary in 2012
Hennepin
Recipient
Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Cook
Lake
Recipient
Kanabec County Art Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
IMAGE Art Show 2012
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Nicollet County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999

To provide greater accessibility to, and use of, the NCHS microfilm research collection.

Nicollet
Recipient
District 7 Planning Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To document in 10 interviews the history of the immigrant gardening in Saint Paul
Ramsey
Recipient
Mower County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,995
Fund Source

Mower County has completed the first phase of their county-wide imminent public health threat inventory and are currently in the process of phase two. This project will fund the third phase which will allow Mower County to inventory over 1,400 sites and remove an anticipated total of 230 imminent public health threats from discharging to local waters or to ground surface.

Mower
Recipient
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,000
Fund Source

Design, engineering, and construction of improvements included in the Metropolitan Council approved Master Plan for Mississippi Gorge Regional Park, specifically in the area south of I-35W on the west bank now commonly known as Bohemian Flats. Work will include bicycle and pedestrian paths, picnic areas, fishing areas, landscaping, signs, and visitor comfort facilities.

Hennepin
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To enhance access to arts and cultural activities by showcasing a variety of performers, artisans and educators, never before hosted by the fair. Programming will include children's puppetry, German musical performances and dancing, Spanish, French and German singing, folk singing and fiddle music, presentations on the MN River preservation and history.

Brown
Recipient
Chisago Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$238,640
Fund Source

In partnership with the Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District, subwatershed assessments for the communities of Center City, Lindstrom and Chisago City, all within the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes watershed have been completed. The tourism economy of these communities depends on the Chisago Lakes Chain of Lakes.

Chisago
Recipient
South Washington Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$156,645
Fund Source

In partnership with the Washington Conservation District and City of Woodbury, this project will improve water quality in Colby Lake through implementing 30 priority small-scale water quality conservation practices. Projects may include bioretention, vegetated swales and pond modifications. Priority projects were identified as part of the Colby Lake Watershed Retrofit Assessment and represent the most cost-effective means to reduce excess phosphorus loads that have impacted Colby Lake.

Washington
Recipient
Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$252,125
Fund Source

Green Lake is a popular and regionally significant lake. Monitoring data collected on Green Lake indicates that the lake's water quality is declining. Over recent decades, development in the City of Spicer and around Green Lake has increased dramatically, resulting in much higher percentages of impervious surfaces such as parking lots, driveways and roads. The resulting increase in runoff velocities and volumes require the incorporation of stormwater infrastructure to accommodate water that previously infiltrated soils.

Kandiyohi
Recipient
Wilkin Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$294,506
Fund Source

This water quality improvement project involves the retrofit of county ditch #31 also known as Connelly Ditch. The capacity of the ditch is inadequate and there is a need to reduce sediment and peak flows to it.

Wilkin
Recipient
Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$43,505
Fund Source

The Crow River is known to be one of the highest nutrient loading watersheds in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Years of water quality monitoring confirm a variety of water quality issues in drainage ditches. These include high nutrient loading and delivery of high levels of suspended solids to downstream receiving waters such as Diamond Lake which is negatively impacted for elevated phosphorus levels.

Kandiyohi
Recipient
Yellow Medicine Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,595
Fund Source

Agricultural drain tiles with surface intakes are considered a significant delivery mechanism of nutrients to Minnesota River. Protecting those surface water inlets can reduce the direct path those nutrients have to the river. In addition, in agricultural fields with subsurface drainage, leached nitrate creates elevated nitrate levels in tile drainage water. These high nitrate concentrations can cause algae blooms that remove oxygen. To help remove nitrates leached into tile drains, wood chip bioreactors can be installed to remove nitrate from the tile water before it enters surface water.

Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Wadena Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,950
Fund Source

As the City of Wadena is being re-built after an EF4 tornado, it has become evident that more needs to be done to reduce runoff by retaining or diverting stormwater. The purpose of this project is to provide subgrants to citizens to install various conservation practices on their properties including grassed waterways, rain gardens and tree plantings. Through this subgrant program the citizens of Wadena will have a greater understanding of the importance of stormwater management.

Wadena
Recipient
University of Minnesota - Duluth
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Statewide
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Fund Source

Harriet Island-Lilydale Regional Park. Implement plan improvements, roads, trails, utilities, vegetation.

Ramsey
Recipient
Becker County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To improve display areas that feature quilts, historic and artistic photographs, American Indian fine art, indigenous floral arrangements, locally grown herbs, and other handiwork indicative of Becker county by purchasing display cases and improving lighting. Additionally, to feature American Indian performers and a Norwegian performing pair to share their talents under the free tent during the fair.

Becker
Recipient
MN DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$487,000
Statewide
Recipient
Audubon Center of the North Woods
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
Pine
Recipient
United States Geological Survey
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$149,999
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has identified streamflow alteration as a key stressor on aquatic life, but the characteristics of streamflow alteration acting as a stressor has not been identified in the MPCA Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process. Without indices that characterize streamflow alteration, the MPCA cannot quantitatively associate metrics of aquatic life condition to streamflow alteration. The lack of quantifiable indices limits the ability of the MPCA to assess environmental streamflow needs for streams and rivers throughout Minnesota.

Statewide
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$305,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$305,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$420,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,803
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$180,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$320,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$223,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$280,000
Fund Source

This program will develop a centralized, integrated approach to managing existing data systems and incorporating new information needs into the integrated enterprise information system of data.

Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages over 2,135 state Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) and Aquatic Management Areas (AMA) containing over 1.3 million acres. This appropriation is enabling the DNR to develop an information system that will better facilitate the management of the state's WMAs and AMAs by helping to identify needs; prioritize, plan, and carry out related activities; track and assess results of activities; and make the information available to resource management professionals and the public.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$287,893

The Minnesota Historical Society is removing financial and geographic barriers for Minnesota teachers who want to attend professional development courses. With these funds, the Society is making enriched, affordable Minnesota history training opportunities available to teachers around the state through a series of professional workshops, conferences and immersion experiences. Limited subsidies are available for lodging, mileage and substitute teacher reimbursement.

Statewide
Recipient
Lincoln County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

To hire a qualified professional to install light-blocking shades on museum windows in order to provide better storage and exhibit conditions for the artifacts. .

Lincoln
Recipient
Ramsey County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,427

To improve lighting conditions in the museum by installing UV window film.

Ramsey
Recipient
Anoka County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$88,000
Fund Source

Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Park Reserve. Install interactive computer kiosk to provide park activity information.

Anoka