All Projects

To design, produce, and install a historical marker in Northfield for Old Prairieville Cemetery.

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.

The north-central Minnesota counties of Cass and Hubbard share large portions of the Crow Wing River, Leech and Upper Mississippi Watersheds, all of which play an important role in providing clean drinking water to over one million Minnesota residents. Each county assumes the responsibility of inspecting and evaluating the judicial and county ditch systems that drain directly into these watersheds. The two counties together share two judicial ditch systems and combined have an additional 42 ditches within their borders.

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

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

This project builds upon the success of the Minimal Impact Design Standards (MIDS) Community Assistance Package by working hands-on with up to 13 communities in the St. Croix River Basin to adopt ordinance and code revisions to incorporate MIDS stormwater quality and volume standards for new development and redevelopment.

To design, produce, and install a historical marker for the Church of St. Rose of Lima, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

To hire qualified consultants to conduct research for interpretive materials for a Dakota cultural and medicinal garden.

To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of St. Paul's Rondo neighborhood, in preparation for future exhibit panels.

To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

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.

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

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

This project will develop an inventory of the Chisago County public ditch system and significant tributaries, including record searching and field verification to identify and confirm locations of existing public ditches. This project will also identify, inventory and evaluate functions, purpose, and necessity of the Chisago County ditch system and determine legal status of ditches, rights, and responsibilities as defined in Minnesota Statutes 103E.

To hire a qualified historian to research the cultural history of St. Cloud State University.

To document in 13 oral history interviews the history of Celtic Junction Arts Center.

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.

Provide funding to counties to assist low-income homeowners with needed Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems (SSTS) upgrades to protect public health and the environment.

Maintenance of the Ojibwe language and culture classes, along withi participatioin in Ojibwe Quiz bowls, classroom presentations, language tables and Ojibwe cultural immersion camp, are essential for continued success of American Indian students and ensures a positive reinforcement of the self-image of American Indian students. The Dakota and Ojibwe Language Revitalization Grant will be monitored by the ISD 361 Indian Education staff and parent committee. Quarterly meetins will take place to monitor the program.

This project will develop, implement, and evaluate the impacts of co-developed civic engagement outcomes for the St. Louis River, Big Fork River, and Littlefork River watersheds.

This project will result in spatial and long-term pollutant load information from Minnesota rivers and streams.

This study investigated the entire water and sewer system servicing Itasca State Park. A condition report was created that proposes a 12-year rehabilitation schedule. Itasca is Minnesota's oldest park at almost 100 years old. It's water and sewer infrastructure is in dire need of rehab. Failure of this system would be most likely when the park is being heavily visited. Until now, a comprehensive inventory of the entire water and sewer system did not exist.

This project accomplished the design of the next phase of the new bike trail at Itasca State Park, from the Mississippi Rover to the Oziwindib group center. Portions of the bike trail follow the park road, which is a very dangerous situation for both bikers and motorists. This project will remove this safety risk. The DNR will seek 2016 bonding to construct Phase II.

This project protected in fee approximately 1,960 acres in Cass County and 320 acres in Hubbard County of forest habitat that are at significant risk of conversion to row crop agriculture. The project also restored 92 acres jack pine, an increasingly rare tree species, in the project area.

Connect homes with failing septic systems to municipal system

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.