All Projects

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Recipient
Regents of the University of Minnesota
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500

To conduct a conservation survey of 95 works of Francis Lee Jaques housed at three Minnesota museums.

A conservation survey was conducted for the artworks of Francis Lee Jacques from the Bell Museum, the Jacques Art Center and the St. Louis county Historical Society. Nine out of 95 works out were identified and prioritized based on condition. Each of the nine works received a treatment proposal and an estimate for its conservation needs.

Hennepin
Fund Source

This project constructed a 40 kw solar array for Jay Cooke State Park. The array will offset electrical use in the shop area, which is one of the highest energy using areas in the park.

Carlton
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,688
The purpose of the Jeffers Petroglyphs Data Access project is to store and provide access to 3D digital scans of the Jeffers Petroglyphs. A website devoted to the Jeffers Petroglyphs is being created to showcase the valuable three-dimensional images of ancient rock carvings recently catalogued by the Minnesota Historical Society Collections staff. This project carries out the critical second piece of the 2008 Jeffers Petroglyphs Conservation Project that was initially funded to remove lichen from the petroglyphs.
Statewide
Recipient
Hamline University
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$48,863
To survey that portion of the 23-mile long Red Rock Ridge not within the boundaries of the Jeffers Petroglyphs State Historic Site for additional glyphs and other evidence of usage to further aid in understanding human habitation in Southwest Minnesota.
Cottonwood
Recipient
Sholom Community Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To document perceptions of identity and legacy through 15 oral history interviews with residents of a Jewish long-term care system in the Twin Cities.  The project focused on capturing quickly disappearing histories from people who grew up in Minnesota’s immigrant communities or came to Minnesota as Russian immigrants or Holocaust survivors.   

Hennepin
Recipient
Pennington SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$93,844
Fund Source

The 14,080 acre watershed of JD#30 and JD#18 drains into the Thief River four miles upstream of Thief River Falls. The City of Thief River Falls draws their drinking water from the reservoir the Thief River supplies. This reservoir is filling with sediment faster than anticipated. It was first estimated that the reservoir would require dredging every 50 years. The last dredging was needed in only 35 years at a price tag of $1.1 million. Treatment of the water for drinking is a major expense to the City.

Pennington
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500

Attend Summer Music Camp.

Kandiyohi
Recipient
Claire Guggemos
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400

Attend Ballet/Modern Dance Lessons.

McLeod
Recipient
Berett Steffen
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Jazz Style Violin Workshop.
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
Fund Source

This project will gather watershed data necessary for the development of a comprehensive watershed management plan with parameter-specific thresholds that will maintain or improve water quality for the Kawishiwi Watershed.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Kensington Area Heritage Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate the current system in preparation for better control of the Kensington Area Heritage Society museum environment.
Douglas
Grant
Pope
Stevens
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,067
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,995

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,042
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,042

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
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,995

To capture the experiences of several generations of Kittson County war veterans, six individuals with direct combat or combat support experience, were interviewed. The transcriptions of each first-person narrative were printed and are now part of the Kittson County Historical Society  permanent archives. Supplemental materials including photographs and additional information were used to highlight each story and to bring the reader deeper into the stories. A presentation notebook was created and a copy presented to each interviewee.

Kittson
Recipient
Kittson SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

This project will provide a means of identifying and prioritizing areas in the Two Rivers Watershed District (TRWD) and the Kittson County Ditch system to implement conservation practices that reduce overland runoff contaminant loadings contributing to water quality impairments. Flow paths, in conjunction with land use and soils information, will be used to analyze the potential for contaminant loading. This information will be available to Kittson County Ditch Authorities, landowners, resource managers and others.

Kittson
Recipient
Stearns History Museum
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

In order to update a control system that had surpassed its life-expectancy and to maintain a proper museum environment, the SCHS upgraded the HVAC system control software and front end computer. They were replaced with a new KMC LAN controller and Total Control software. The new system provides improved emvironmental control and energy conservation.

St. Louis
Recipient
St. Cloud State University
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$56,050
To initiate research at five adjacent archaeological sites in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which will inform an eventual National Register of Historic Places nomination.
Lake
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Project between Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and United States Army Corp of Engineers at Knowlton Creek Watershed to address a large amount of sediment deposited into the St. Louis River Area of Concern (AOC).

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
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
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Blacktop resurfacing of park road through Lake Bronson State Park

Kittson
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,542
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,619

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
Recipient
Stevens Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,986
Fund Source

This project will complete data collection on 11 lakes over a 2 year period in the Pomme de Terre Watershed. The data collected will be be used in the Major Watershed Project proposed for this watershed.

Big Stone
Douglas
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Swift
Recipient
Cuyuna Iron Range Heritage Network
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,420

A traveling exhibit was developed to display museum-quality copies of fragile artifacts recovered from the archaeological site: Roosevelt Shores 21-CW-173. The exhibit tells the story of 2000 years (up through the late 1800's) of American history at the site.

Crow Wing
Recipient
Murray County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,440

In the second phase of an oral history project, Life in Lake Sarah, four additional residents were interviewed and recorded. The recordings were transcribed along with two earlier interviews. The six recordings were compiled in booklet form and added to the permanent collection of the Murray County Historical Society.

Murray
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
Fund Source

The Lake Superior Beach Monitoring and Notification Program exists to test recreational beach water and notify the public if bacteria levels become unsafe. This project will expand the Beach Program to include additional outreach efforts, sanitary surveys and testing of new technologies to improve the Beach Program. Monitoring results will be used to inform the public, find the sources of bacterial contamination and address polluted runoff from improper waste disposal.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
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
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$79,000
Fund Source

Prepare Lake Vermilion State Park for development and public use by completing a master plan and providing immediate day-use opportunities. This program area describing development accomplishments on Lake Vermillion State Park is now being reported as part of "New State Park and State Recreation Area Development," searchable on this site.

St. Louis
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,667
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,667

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
Lake of the Woods SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,140
Fund Source

This project will help to improve the water quality of Lake of the Woods by providing local staff with the resources necessary for implementing best management practices that will reduce erosion in drainage ditches. The Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will assist the County in developing a process for inventory and inspection of ditches. Public drainage is critical to the local economy and proper drainage management is critical to water quality protection.

Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Washington Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$216,130
Fund Source

The Lake St. Croix Rural Subwatershed Project Implementation Clean Water Fund Grant will allow the Washington Conservation District and its partners to carry out the implementation of 8-10 of the top 50 highly ranked conservation projects already identified in the Top50P! rural subwatershed analysis. Implementation of the conservation practices will work towards achieving an estimated 80-160 pounds of phosphorus load reduction to Lake St. Croix.

Washington
Recipient
Douglas SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000
Fund Source

As lake-focused development continues these high quality waters will see increasing amounts of land use change. The State Demographer projects that the targeted lake catchments will see population increases of 25-62% within 20 years. Isolating these contributing areas permits the Lake Protection Analysis project to perform multiple GIS analyses to accurately inform water quality discussions. The final framework will allow local water managers to prioritize across their water bodies, target activities to specific subsheds, and develop measurable goals.

Crow Wing
Douglas
Recipient
Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,235
Fund Source

This project, beginning in Spring of 2014 and lasting until December 2015, will collect water quality data for 16 sites (7 lakes and 4 stream sites) within the Rainy River - Headwaters Major Watershed as part of the 10-year cycle for monitoring Minnesota's waters. Due to the large number and geographic extent of monitoring sites Lake County Soil and Water Conservaion District (SWCD) has coordinated site selection with North St. Louis County Soil and Water Conservaion District (SWCD) and will monitor sites within the southwestern (Kawishiwi River) portion of the watershed.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota - St. Paul
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,026
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is to gain an understanding of modern and historical nutrient and thermal dynamics in Lake of the Woods using modeling, monitoring, sediment core analysis, and whole basin techniques.

Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Lake County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,175
Fund Source

to construct an ATV trail connecting the western end of Lake County to the existing trail system in the Finland and Silver Bay area

Lake
Recipient
Nobles SWCD
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$162,105
Fund Source

The Lake Ocheda Shoreline Improvement Project will restore and provide long term protection of 1,600 feet of lake shoreline resulting in improved drinking water supplies, improved water quality for fishery and upland habitat and historical preservation. A large portion of this shoreline currently has a 10 to 20 foot vertical wall of shoreline that has been sloughing for the past 50 to 100 years.

Nobles
Recipient
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$796,400
Fund Source

This project will support the collection of water-quality samples and gauge streamflow near the mouths of the Rainy and Warroad Rivers; collect water-quality samples at 10 sites in LOW; and measure streamflow velocities and cross-sectional areas of 5 channel constrictions in LOW.

Roseau
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Stearns County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Fund Source

Extensions and connections to the Lake Wobegon Trail.

Recipient
Douglas County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$292,000
Fund Source

Acquire 62 acres of to expand Brophy Lake Regional Park.

Recipient
Stearns County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source

Restore asphalt surface on the Wobegon Trail. This involves removal of substandard asphalt, repacking and resurfacing of segments of the trail. The section of trail is Albany to Morrison County.

Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,304
Fund Source
The goal of this project is to improve understanding of nutrient (phosphorus) and sediment sources in the Lake Okabena Watershed.
Nobles