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Recipient
U of MN - Duluth
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000

Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area, is amongst Minnesota’s greatest natural resources providing drinking water, shipping, recreation, and tourism. Recently the lake has been undergoing significant changes including increasing water temperatures, decreasing ice cover, increasing nutrient loads, decreasing biological productivity, increasing invasive species, and changes in species abundance and distribution. The reasons behind these changes and the interactions amongst them are not well understood.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Wadena County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,400
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system preparatory to better control of the Wadena County Historical Society museum environment.
Wadena
Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,061
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,040
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,240
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,020
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,241
Fund Source

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) requests assistance from local partners to collect samples and field data at designated stream monitoring sites for the purpose of assessing water quality and calculating annual pollutant loads.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Giants of the Earth Heritage Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire consultants to develop and install an exhibit on the founding of two communities in Houston County.
Houston
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,169
Minnesota Historical Society exhibitions are supported by diverse programming that complements the content of the exhibitions. These additional programs augmented and promoted the rich stories of Minnesota's history in connection with exhibitions such as "American Spirits: the Rise and Fall of Prohibition" and "Toys of the 50s, 60s and 70s."
Statewide
Recipient
Friends of the Minnesota Valley
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Continue and expand a River Watch program on the Minnesota River engaging teams of high school students in water quality monitoring and reporting the data to the MNPCA

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Dakota
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

Compelling, new, interactive exhibits at North Mississippi Regional Park will spark curiosity, increase knowledge, change behavior, and inspire a diverse audience of 326,000 annual visitors to explore the outdoors.

Hennepin
Recipient
ReUse Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$275,000

This project will focus on creating a much more robust reuse economy throughout the State resulting in reduced solid waste, less pollution, more jobs, and small business development.

Statewide
Recipient
The NetWork for Better Futures d/b/a Better Futures Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000

This project will: expand strategies of the 2015 LCCMR grant; establish deconstruction and building material reuse as a practice statewide; document the environmental, health, and economic benefits of material reuse.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,000
Partner: Minnesota Association of Museums (MAM) MAM provides professional development and support to museum professionals across the state. This partnership funds a part-time managing coordinator to research professional development programs for museum professionals, communicate and promote the programs, determine what additional professional development opportunities are needed and expand MAM programming to serve organizations across the state.
Statewide
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$197,000

Building on the exhibit development community engagement process carried through three successive Legacy grants, the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota used the 2013 direct appropriation to prepare for and begin building exhibit components for its permanent facility by combining professional museum expertise with local resources, volunteers, and community involvement.

Aitkin
Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Recipient
RESPEC
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,980
Fund Source

The primary goal of this project is to enhance the current version of the Expert System for Calibration of HSPF (HSPEXP+) so that it can be more efficiently used for QA/QC of hydrology and water quality models developed using Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) and develop input files for two receiving waterbody models.

Statewide
Recipient
Fairmont Opera House, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Martin
Recipient
Martin SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$220,000
Fund Source

This project will improve water quality in the nutrient impaired Fairmont Chain of Lakes. These 5 lakes are a surface water drinking water source for a City of over 10,000 people. Phase one of this multi-phase water quality restoration project focuses on installing 12 targeted agricultural best management practices such as bioreactors, saturated buffers and grassed waterways and will reduce nitrogen by over 1,000 pounds per year, sediment by over 130 tons per year, and phosphorus by over 200 pounds per year.

Martin
Recipient
Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,040

Fall Legacy Organization Grant

Stevens
Todd
Douglas
Pope
Otter Tail
Recipient
Central Square, Inc. AKA Central Square Cultural and Civic Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,226

Fall Legacy Organization Grant

Pope
Douglas
Stevens
Stearns
Grant
Otter Tail
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Dominic B. Facio AKA DomFreq Productions
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,810

Fall Legacy Individual Grant

Otter Tail
Clay
Grant
Wilkin
Hennepin
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,500

Fall Legacy Organization Grant

Clay
Becker
Norman
Traverse
Recipient
Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,130

Fall Legacy Organization Grant

Clay
Recipient
The Knute Nelson Foundation
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,910

Fall Legacy Organization Grant

Douglas
Grant
Pope
Traverse
Recipient
Minnesota State Community and Technical College
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,817

Fall Legacy Organization Grant

Clay
Otter Tail
Grant
Stevens
Recipient
Faribault County SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,430
Fund Source

The Faribault County Soil and Water Conservation District Drainage Engineer will inventory public drainage ditches to identify priority systems and areas where erosion, sediment, and nutrients contribute to water quality degradation. Sites identified for potential side inlet control, buffer strip need, or water storage will be prioritized for landowner contact and follow through by seeking external funding opportunities.

Faribault
Recipient
Faribault County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,274
Fund Source

Working with a consultant, a current online database to manage public drainage systems will be enhanced and a corresponding mobile inspection app will be developed to facilitate drainage compliance and improve inspection planning. With these improvements, a long-term, comprehensive, GIS-compatible database will be in place to help plan, collect, document, summarize, and analyze system condition, repair needs, and violations with the overall goal of protecting and improving water quality.

Faribault
Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000

We will develop a farmer-led, market-based working lands approach for protecting water by targeted expansion of alfalfa production, and enable farmers to take this approach by expanding markets for alfalfa.

Nicollet
Recipient
Farmer Labor Education Committee
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,760
To hire a qualified consultant to compile a resource guide on the history of the Farmer Labor Party.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Howard Lake
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,560
To hire a qualified consultant to write a feasibility study for Howard Lake City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Wright
Recipient
Rourke Art Gallery Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
To hire an architect to write a Historic Structure Report to guide future restoration of the 1915 Federal Courthouse and Post Office, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, now the Rourke Art Museum.
Clay
Recipient
Otter Tail County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Otter Tail
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,944
To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.
Washington
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

Elms were once a very widespread tree in Minnesota and amongst the most common and popular in urban landscapes due to their size, shading capability, and tolerance of pollution and other stresses. Over the past five decades, though, Dutch elm disease, an exotic and invasive pathogen, has killed millions of elms throughout the state. However, scientists at the University of Minnesota have observed that some elms have survived the disease and appear to have special characteristics that make them resistant to Dutch elm disease.

Statewide
Recipient
Steele County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,206
Steele
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Rice
Recipient
City of Stillwater (Fire Department)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified consultant to write an
Washington
Recipient
First Congregational Church of Minnesota - United Church of Christ
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$53,200
Hennepin
Recipient
First Congregational Church of Winona
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Winona
Recipient
Division of Indian Work
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$102,785

-Increase knowledge for 69 American Indian youth ages 7-17 through practice of conversational Dakota
-Build the foundation for youth to grow to become fluent speakers
-Improve proficiency of Dakota language learners by the end of 12 months

Recipient
University of Minnesota: James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$55,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,493
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,307
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,572
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,900
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$900
Fund Source

The Bell Museum will sort and identify all fish samples collected by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) North and South Biological Monitoring Units. The Bell Museum of Natural History (Bell Museum) will provide professional fish Identification expertise to the MPCA fish voucher program, while also helping the Bell Museum annually update their fish distribution map for the State of Minnesota. As the MPCA samples and vouchers species of significance, the Bell Museum shall catalog these species into their official fish collection.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$545,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$455,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$132,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,000
Fund Source

The DNR works with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Health to determine the level of contamination from mercury and other harmful chemicals in fish from Minnesota's lakes and rivers and to track the success of efforts to reduce mercury pollution. Clean Water Legacy funding is being used to significantly increase (more than double) the number of lakes and rivers that are assessed for mercury contamination on an annual basis. Fish are collected during DNR fishery surveys, processed for laboratory testing, and analyzed for contaminants.

Statewide
Recipient
Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation and Minnesota Land Trust
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,801,000
Fund Source

The Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation in partnership with the Minnesota Land Trust will protect high priority critical fish habitat and the surrounding watersheds on 30 tullibee "refuge" lakes by securing conservation easements and fee title acquisitions. We will permanently protect approximately 445 acres and 1 miles of shoreland in total. If a lake's watershed has less than 25% land disturbance, the lake has a high probability to maintain clean water and healthy lake ecosystem.

Aitkin
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Recipient
Florence Township
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
To hire a qualified professional to write an exterior building assessment of the Florence Town Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Goodhue