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Chippewa County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To enhance security of the Chippewa County Historical Society to preserve documentary evidence of the county's history
Chippewa
Recipient
Brown's Creek Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$158,800
Fund Source

In collaboration with the University of Minnesota St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, City of Stillwater and MN DNR Waters and Fisheries an iron-enhanced sand filter will be designed. This filter will remove approximately 118 pounds of total phosphorous per year from an area of Stillwater that ultimately drains to the St. Croix River, a national Wild and Scenic River that has a decling water quality trend.

Washington
Recipient
White Earth Reservation (Tribal Council)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Becker
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Recipient
U of MN - Bell Museum of Natural History
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$340,304

Minnesotans of all ages are participating in deep intergenerational learning experiences by working together to document community history and create lasting products (exhibits, documentaries, audio tours etc.) that are shared with their communities. These intergenerational collaborations build relationships among members of older and younger generations, increase students" appreciation for Minnesota history and recognize the importance of older adults and their role in transmitting community history.

Statewide
Recipient
Mahnomen County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,247
To install climate control that meets museum standards in order to better preserve collections that document Mahnomen County history.
Mahnomen
Recipient
City of Blackduck
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Minnesota and International Railroad Trestle.
Beltrami
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Fund Source

Co-sponsorship and assistance with a portion of the financial support for the 9th & 10th Annual International Lake of the Woods Water Quality Forum (Forum) to be held on March 7-8, 2012 and March 13-14, 2013 at the Rainy River Community College in International Falls, Minnesota. The Forum will feature the latest information on research conducted by Canadian and U.S. researchers regarding the International Lake of the Woods waters.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Washington County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$40,000

To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Washington County Heritage Center.

Washington
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To prepare a comprehensive interpretive plan for better public access to the history of model railroading.

Ramsey
Recipient
Cottonwood County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,000
To fabricate and install an exhibit based on thorough research about all veterans associated with Cottonwood County.
Cottonwood
Recipient
Cottonwood County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To expand the awareness of the arts and history of music in America. The fair will host a jug band, polka band, folk singer and yodeler. To enhance the performances, a sound system and portable bleachers will be purchased.

Cottonwood
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010,424
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,146,731
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,233,959
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,006,732
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$967,993
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$886,996
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,047,050
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$274,364
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$675,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$539,510
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$476,600
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$472,773
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$472,773
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700,000
Fund Source

This on-going program is for detecting, mapping and controlling invasive plant species and re-establishing native vegetation in their place on lands administered by the Division of Parks and Trails. Control of invasive plant species furthers progress to preserve and restore the quality of native plant communities on Parks and Trails lands as well as helps prevent the spread of invasives to new locations.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota's Historic Northwest
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To develop a traveling exhibit about the inventors, entrepreneurs, and companies from Northwest Minnesota.
Becker
Recipient
Minnetonka Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,990

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Hennepin
Recipient
Carver County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$97,224

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

Carver
Recipient
Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,925
To hire qualified archivists to make publicly accessible the Gen. Ray Miller Papers documenting the beginning of the Minnesota Air National Guard.
Hennepin
Recipient
Inver Grove Heights, City of
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$296,052
Fund Source

Construct stormwater management basin to meet TMDL wasteload allocation

Dakota
Recipient
Carver County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$160,000
Statewide
Carver
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogenbest management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators onissues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigationscheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reducenitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000


OVERALL PROJECT OUTCOME AND RESULTS
The impetus for this project was the need to better protect and manage functional lake ecosystems in Minnesota. There is widespread concern about the consequences of poorly planned development on water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. Given the increased demands for water and shoreland, continued habitat fragmentation and loss of species diversity, protection of sensitive lakeshores is critical.

Itasca
Recipient
Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,279
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,501
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,950
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,320
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,988
Fund Source

Itasca SWCD will work with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as a collaborative effort to monitor the Big Fork River near Bigfork at State Highway 6 and Big Fork River near Craigsville at State Highway 6. Itasca Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) staff will strive to capture the peak, rising, and falling limbs of the hydrograph for spring run-off and significant storm events as well as base flow samples. Itasca SWCD staff will utilize local rain gauge readers, storm tracking weather services, and historical stage data to aid in making monitoring judgments.

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
City of Elk River
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,250

To hire a qualified consultant to develop architectural drawings for the Jackson Street Water Tower, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Sherburne
Recipient
Minnesota Transportation Museum
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,000

To hire a qualified consultant to develop architectural drawings for roof repair on the Jackson Street Roundhouse, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Ramsey
Recipient
St. James Opera House Restoration Project, Inc.
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000

To hire qualified professionals to restore the east storefront on the St. James Opera House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Watonwan
Recipient
James J. Hill Reference Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,300
To restore and abate water infiltration of the marble entrance stairs on the James J. Hill Reference Library, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Bell Museum of Natural History)
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,760

To compile information on publicly-owned Jacques art and allow greater public access to these historic resources.

Aitkin
Hennepin
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Reclaim Community
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for Jasper School.

Pipestone
Recipient
Le Sueur County SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$387,100
Fund Source
Le Sueur
Recipient
Sholom Community Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document in 6 intergenerational interviews the history of how Jewish migration to Minnesota is transmitted to succeeding generations.

Ramsey
Recipient
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,660

To create 15 entries about Minnesota's Jewish institutions using text, photos and videos from the collections of JHSUM for MNopedia.

St. Louis
Partners: The City of St. Paul and Public Art St. Paul. A professional conservator will restore the 1907 Schiller sculpture in St. Paul's Como Park, a part of the City of Saint Paul's public art collection. It will also provide public information about the sculpture and a strategic plan for ongoing maintenance.The Schiller sculpture has stood as a focal point near the entry to Como Park for more than 100 years and is seen by many of the more than 3,000,000 annual park visitors.
Recipient
Stillwater Public Library
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,505
To preserve and make accessible the library's historic photo collection.
Washington
Recipient
Heritage Group North, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To digitize the contents of the John M. Rohr Film Collection, 16mm film shot in Pine River MN from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Cass
Recipient
Kasson, City of
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$489,494
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Recipient
Douglas County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$261,475
Fund Source

Multi-use trails including 640 feet of elevated boardwalk, new park entrance including 1800 feet of entrance road.

Douglas
Recipient
Carlton Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,000
Fund Source

The Kettle River is a major tributary in the St. Croix River Basin. It is a State Wild and Scenic River and designated canoe route. Reducing sediment and nutrient pollution to the Kettle will protect water quality within the watershed and will also benefit the St. Croix River and help to address excess nutrient loading in Lake St. Croix. This project is a partnership between Carlton, Pine, Kanabec, and Aitkin SWCDs, with the Carlton SWCD acting as the project administrator.

Carlton
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812

Minnesota's twelve regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant. Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$186,486
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$203,268

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kittson County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,838
To gain physical and intellectual control of approximately 2500 artifacts using PastPerfect software.
Kittson