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Recipient
Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$282,634
Fund Source

The Knife River is a state protected water and a Designated Trout Stream. It is nationally known as a prime fresh-water steelhead fishery and is managed as a cold-water trout fishery for native species including brook trout. The Knife River is characterized by steep gradients, multiple water-falls and cascades, tea-colored water, and remnant old-growth forest cover types including white pine, Norway pine and white cedar.

Lake
Recipient
Koochiching County Agricultural Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To provide a variety of arts and cultural heritage activities at the Koochiching County Fair. Funds will be used to bring The Community of a Plate Exhibit to the fair. A Grand Rapids photographer will be commissioned to photograph local food producers in Koochiching County. Their portraits will be displayed during the fair.

Koochiching
Recipient
Koochiching County Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,777
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$181,976
Fund Source

The Koochiching County SWCD staff will collect water chemistry and field parameters at specific times to determine amount of contaminant load into each stream. These sites will coincide with locations where stream flow data is also being collected. This project will focus on watershed load monitoring in both the Big Fork and Little Fork River watersheds.

Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,996
Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Middle St. Croix River WMO
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,440
Fund Source
Washington
Recipient
Kandiyohi County
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$921,000
Fund Source

Kandiyohi County with Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council’s grant was used to address the ecosystem and critical lake habitat on Lake Wakanda. This shallow lake is part of a prairie chain of lakes located south of Willmar at the headwaters of the South Fork of the Crow River, which flows into the Mississippi River.

Kandiyohi
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,777
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,777

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can 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 library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Lake Agassiz Regional Library (LARL) is a consolidated regional public library system in northwestern Minnesota.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
Recipient
Lake County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To create a mural depicting Lake County's history, build a stage to accommodate performances, and provide a venue and supplies for painting, pottery, spinning, and other fine art workshops and demonstrations. Workshops and necessary supplies will be free to the public.

Lake
Recipient
Capitol Region Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000
Fund Source

This project will compile and review previously conducted studies and will prioritize best management practices (BMPs) based on a cost-benefit analysis of their pollutant load reductions and life cycle costs. It will also support the design and construction of BMPs, such as rain gardens and infiltration practices, within the Villa Park subwatershed of the Lake McCarrons watershed.

Ramsey
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,998
To conduct a side and down imaging remote sensing survey of Upper Lake Minnetonka to recognize submerged cultural resources.
Carver
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,394
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$170,496

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.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
Recipient
Maritime Heritage Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,997

To survey archaeological resources in six sections of Lake Minnetonka.

Hennepin
Recipient
St. Louis County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To produce construction documents for a gallery and adjacent museum storage to preserve Eastman Johnson art works and Ojibwe artifacts.

St. Louis
Recipient
East Otter Tail Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,310
Fund Source

Lake Seven is located in Otter Tail County and is a waterbody of statewide significance, often leading the north central hardwoods forest ecoregion in water clarity. Lake Seven has also been identified by DNR Fisheries staff as one of 77 refuge lakes with the potential to maintain tulibee populations into the future given sufficent watershed protection and the only one in Otter Tail County.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Two Rivers Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Lake Bronson State Park is one of only a handful of state parks in the Northwest corner of Minnesota. The Friends of the Lake Bronson State Park met with Watershed District staff to explore how to improve the water quality of the lake. The lake is subject to sediment and nutrient loading from several upstream ditches. A significant algae bloom during July of each year, at the height of the seasonal use of the lake, is most likely due to the current inflow conditions.

Kittson
Recipient
Cass County Environmental Services Department
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,120
Fund Source

Boy and Swift Lakes are connected lakes on the Boy River, the major tributary stream to Leech Lake. In cooperation with funding from the Boy/Swift Lake Association and the Initiative Foundation Healthy Lakes and Rivers program, this project will result in Subsurface Treatment System (SSTS) compliance inspections on up to 290 properties on Boy Lake and 69 on Swift Lake. The project will also result in an SSTS record review and inventory of all properties on the two lakes.

Cass
Recipient
LimnoTech
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,815
Fund Source

The consultant LimnoTech will support response to Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) comments the peer review process, United States Environmental Protection Agency and public notice. They will then revise the TMDL document as needed and attend internal and external project meetings.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Dodge
Goodhue
Hennepin
Le Sueur
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Steele
Wabasha
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,303
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,950
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,213
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,726
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,662
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,033
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,402
Fund Source

This project is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at two subwatershed sites and two major watershed sites based on flow conditions, targeting runoff events using protocols defined in the Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedures and Guidance. The data collected will be submitted to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and used for calculating pollutant loads. This loading information, in turn, will be used at both the state and local level to guide policy and strategies for the restoration and protection of Minnesota’s waters.

Lake of the Woods
Recipient
University of Minnesota-Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$72,461
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,340
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,744
Fund Source

This project will determine pre- and post-settlement nutrient trends from sediment chronology, fossil diatom assemblages, and from sediment profiles representing human history in the region (i.e., at least 150 years). Project activities include sample collection; sample preparation; diatom analysis; database creation and management; and data interpretation. Sample cores will be taken on the Lake of the Woods in five major bays (i.e., Four-mile, Muskeg, Sabaskong, Little Traverse, and Big Traverse) in the southern basin.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Douglas County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

Acquire approximately 40 acres to expand existing regional park.

Douglas
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$237,180
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,993
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data necessary for the development of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy to maintain or improve water quality within the LoW Watershed; and establish project and sub-basin work groups and/or focus groups to guide the MWRPP process.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Water Sustainability Foundation
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is a co-sponsor and assists with a portion of the financial support for the International Rainy River-Lake of the Woods Watershed Forum.

Cook
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Roseau
St. Louis
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,450,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,450,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,300,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,150,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,178,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

The biological communities present in a lake are the result of cumulative effects of natural and human-caused influences within the entire area of land and water that flows into the lake (i.e., the watershed). Biological assessments are used on lakes to identify water pollution and habitat concerns based on the type and abundance of selected animals and their habitats. Certain species cannot survive without clean water and healthy habitat while other species are tolerant of degraded conditions.

Statewide
Recipient
St. Croix River Association
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to gain additional information about the amount of phosphorous flowing into Lake St Croix by implementing additional water quality monitoring and/or to reduce the amount of phosphorous entering Lake St Croix by the implementation of projects that will reduce phosphorus loadings. The St. Croix River Association (SCRA) will coordinate with a subgroup of the St. Croix Basin Water Resources Planning Team and other local resource experts on the identification and funding of comprehensive water monitoring and phosphorus reduction activities in the Lake St.

Aitkin
Carlton
Chisago
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Washington
Recipient
City Of Duluth
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

to construct .5 miles of a 10 foot wide bituminous trail beginning approximately at 64th Avenue East near Highway 61 in Duluth, cross either over or under the highway with a pedestrian bridge or culvert and terminate at Brighton Beach

Recipient
City Of Duluth
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$181,000
Fund Source

to construct a 1 mile, 10 foot wide bituminous trail beginning at approximately 60th Avenue East, crossing the Lester River on a new bridge and terminating prior to Highway 61 near Brighton Beach

Recipient
Town of Crane Lake
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950,000
Statewide
Recipient
Chisago County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$577,000
Fund Source

Attempted to Acquire 108.5 acres of land adjacent to the 555 acre Janet Johnson WMA. The land is a mix of forest (29 acres), wetlands (35 acres on the NWI), and agriculture (44.5 acres).

Chisago
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$306,675
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$391,567
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$356,477
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$343,762
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$290,398
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$399,148
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$333,128
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$508,851
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$214,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$650,915
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$729,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$311,829
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$311,829
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$546,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$654,000
Fund Source

This program is to restore acres of state parks and trails land to native plant communities. MS 86A.05 directs PAT to preserve, perpetuate and restore natural features in state parks that were present in the area of the park at the time of European settlement. Approximately 31 restoration projects have been completed, are in progress, or will be implemented in the spring of 2012, at over 20 state park units. These projects total 1,283 acres.

Recipient
U of MN
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Statewide
Recipient
Lanesboro Arts Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the Lanesboro Art Center.

Fillmore
Recipient
Nobles County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,401

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

Nobles
Recipient
The Trust for Public Land
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Hubbard
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,925
Rice
Recipient
MN Deer Hunters Association
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,400,000
Fund Source

Project Partners Minnesota Deer Hunters Association (MDHA) and The Conservation Fund (TCF) worked to cooperatively with St. Louis County to protect 1,600 acres of forest habitat at risk of being converted to uses that would degrade critical habitat for wildlife in Minnesota's northeast forest landscape.

St. Louis
Recipient
Kanabec County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,500

To hire qualified professionals to create drawings and specifications for Kanabec County Historical Society's heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system upgrade.

Kanabec
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW
A website called "Minnesota's Legacy" was created by the Minnesota Legislature to help citizens monitor how dollars from the Legacy Amendment and the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund are being invested in the state. This appropriation is being used by the Legislative Coordinating Commission to assist with the administration of the website.

Statewide
Recipient
Learning Law and Democracy Foundation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,575
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,125

Learning Law and Democracy: Principles of Democracy – Connecting civic education to principles that guided the nation's founders and continue to be our foundation today is the goal of LLAD's "Principles of Democracy" project for Minnesota's young people. By focusing on the why, how, and who of our system of government, K-12 students in and out of the classroom will be prepared to carry on Minnesota's civic tradition of informed civic participation. They will learn about the Constitution, structures of government, politics and active citizenship.

Statewide
Recipient
Leech Lake Division of Resource Management
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Cass
Otter Tail
Recipient
Cass County (Environmental Services Department)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000
Fund Source

This project supports the planning, coordination and civic engagement/outreach components of the Leech Lake River Major Watershed project. Phase 1 will focus towards the development of project teams, identifying stakeholders, developing an initial civic engagement strategic plan and reviewing current and past watershed project data. Phase II of this project will focus on source assessment, running of watershed modeling scenarios, lake protection planning, stressor identification and the continuation of the Civic Engagement components of the project.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard