All Projects

5049 Results for
Recipient
Leech Lake Division of Resource Management
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Cass
Otter Tail
Recipient
Rourke Art Gallery Museum
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,670

Legacy Arts & Cutltural Heritage

Clay
Recipient
Niigaane
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

The Niigaane program focus is on Ojibwemowin curriculum development and delivery. Ojibwemowin is the vehicle used to educate our students in kindergarten through sixth grade. We rely on our First Language Elder Speakers to help facilitate and guide our teachers and students in Ojibwe language acquisition. Ojibwe cultural activities are integrated within the academic lessons. Ojibwemowin classes and family centered activities are hosted by Niigaane staff to promote language preservation and acquisition efforts for all family and community members.

Cass
Recipient
Minnesota Lakes Maritime Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Recipient
Science Museum of Minnesota
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,599
Lincoln
Ramsey
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Statewide
Recipient
Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
Statewide
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,130
Clearwater
Recipient
LimnoTech
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$57,308
Fund Source

This project will complete updates to existing information and incorporate new information into the Minnesota Stormwater Manual including the Blue Star Assessment tool. Stormwater practitioners use the information and assessment tool to implement the most effective and cost-efficient practices for managing stormwater runoff volume, stormwater pollutants, and to meet regulatory requirements associated with stormwater permits.

Statewide
Recipient
Friends of Linden Hill, Inc.
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
Morrison
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,250
Fund Source
Benton
Stearns
Recipient
Little Falls, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet more stingent discharge requirements

Morrison
Recipient
Koochiching County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,388
Fund Source

Four stream segments, totaling over 100 miles, are impaired in the Little Fork River for Total Suspended Solids (TSS). This study will provide local partners with project options for reducing sediment in the Little Fork Watershed. Through the use of sediment fingerprinting determinations can be made if the sediment is from in (or near) channel, or the watershed and identify what sub-watershed the sediment is coming originating.

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
Koochiching SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,391
Fund Source

The Little Fork River Watershed Assessment will include the waters of the Rice River, Little Fork River, Flint Creek, Nett Lake River, Beaver Brook, Valley River, Willow River, Sturgeon River, Bear River, Dark River, and the Lost River. This Assessment will also include Little Bear Lake, Bear Lake, Thistledew Lake, Little Moose Lake, Raddison Lake, Napoleon Lake, Owen Lake, Dark Lake, Clear Lake, Long (Main) Lake, Dewey Lake, and Long (North) Lake. These lakes and streams are found throughout the Little Fork River Watershed, which spans parts of Koochiching, St. Louis and Itasca Counties.

Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,740,000
Fund Source

This Phase 6 request for Ducks Unlimited’s Living Lakes program will enhance 1,000 acres of shallow lakes and restore 50 acres of small wetlands by engineering and installing water control structures for Minnesota DNR and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on public lands and wetlands under easement. Structures will be used by DNR and Service partners to restore wetland hydrology and actively manage shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other birds, and hunters in the Prairie Region of Minnesota.

Becker
Big Stone
Cottonwood
Douglas
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
Swift
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,716,000
Fund Source

Ducks Unlimited successfully enhanced 3,437 wetland acres and restored 83 wetland acres through this grant, which significantly exceeds our grant acre goals of 2,000 acres of wetland enhancement and 50 acres of wetlands restored for this 2017 OHF appropriation.

Cottonwood
Grant
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Meeker
Murray
Pope
Sibley
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Local Arts Initiative

Swift
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Lac qui Parle
Renville
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Murray
Cottonwood
Nobles
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Local Arts Initiative

Swift
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Lac qui Parle
Renville
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Murray
Cottonwood
Nobles
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Afton
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Washington
Recipient
Audubon Minnesota
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$280,000
Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$563,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$550,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

Appropriations from the Clean Water Fund allow the Minnesota Department of Health to expand and improve the way groundwater and drinking water protection is implemented at the local level. In 2015, $300,000 was allocated to update wellhead protection areas within groundwater management areas. From 2016 onward, funding will be dedicated to the Groundwater Restoration and Protection Strategies (GRAPS) initiative which will provide groundwater and drinking water information and management strategies on a HUC 8 watershed scale.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnehaha Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to identify watershed and in-lake best management practices (BMPs) to improve water quality for impaired water bodies within the Upper Long Lake Creek subwatershed. The existing P8 watershed model and BATHTUB lake response models will be updated and refined to identify BMPs, develop project costs, and estimate nutrient load reductions. A feasibility report will be developed that outlines prioritized projects, estimated load reductions, and project costs to accelerate implementation.

Hennepin
Recipient
St. Croix Watershed Researh Station
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,981
Fund Source

This project is to collect site specific core sampling for the development of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for Strand and Long lakes.

St. Louis
Recipient
McLeod County Historic Partnership
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,422

To research and recreate early street scene photographs of the nine McLeod County towns.

McLeod
Recipient
South St Louis Soil & Water Conservation District
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$146,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this contract is to augment data collection efforts for the St. Louis River (SLR) Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) and for four impaired Duluth beaches. For the SLR WRAPS, activities include: attaining datasets for watershed stressors and geomorphic conditions, water quality gap monitoring, and a civic engagement component. Impaired beaches activities include: collection of field observational data, field water chemistry, and water quality samples for analytical analysis.

St. Louis
Recipient
Carlton County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,758
Fund Source

Beginning in June 2019, the St Louis River Watershed will start the second round of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) process. This project helps the Carlton County SWCD (SWCD) initiate a broader citizen participation process in the Watershed. The SWCD staff will be enabled to create a greater degree of public interest in and awareness of the general health of the Watershed. This work will create the foundation for greater citizen involvement in the planning and implementation of restoration and protection activities in the Watershed.

Carlton
St. Louis
Recipient
North St. Louis SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,457
Fund Source

The project provides the opportunity for the North Saint Louis Soil and Water Conservation District (NSLSWCD) to engage in efforts to increase public participation in the St. Louis River Watershed and participate in the planning and technical review of the Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) process. NSLSWCD contains the headwaters of the St. Louis River Watershed. The District’s knowledge of the area, communities, and organizations puts them in a unique position to work cooperatively in the watershed.

Carlton
Itasca
St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,013,000
Fund Source

DNR achieved the following outcomes using ML2018 funds.
-Restored 4 acres of habitat at Interstate Island for threatened bird species, including a 30,000 sqft nesting area.
-Seeded 3,917 lbs of Manoomin with tribal partners across 28 acres.
-Removed 68,000CY of sediment from Perch Lake restoring coastal marsh and deep water habitat.
-Designed and implemented a portion of the Kingsbury Bay/Creek watershed restoration project contributing to an estimated total reduction of over 400 tons of sediment per year.

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,392,000
Fund Source

DNR's St. Louis River Restoration Initiative (SLRRI) advanced multiple large-scale habitat restoration projects. ML2017 funds contributed to: 

-Removing 300,000 CY of invasive vegetation, sediment, and sawmill waste from the waters of Kingsbury Bay and Grassy Point, restoring approximately 230 acres of coastal marsh habitat;

-Restoring five acres of habitat at Interstate Island for a threatened avian species by beneficially using over 52,000 CY of clean sand dredged from navigation channels;

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,555,000
Fund Source

This proposal seeks to enhance and restore 35 acres of fish and wildlife habitat on the lower Mississippi River in Houston County benefiting bluegill, crappie, bass, deer and Blue-winged and Prothonotary warblers. Sedimentation in Upper Mississippi River (UMR) backwaters and declining UMR floodplain forests are a concern to resource managers, anglers, hunters and recreational users.

Houston
Recipient
Rice Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$568,104
Fund Source

The Rice Creek Watershed District is proposing to improve water quality and habitat in Locke Lake and Lower Rice Creek by stabilizing stream banks and bluffs on Lower Rice Creek, reducing in-stream erosion and sediment delivery to Locke Lake, and improving in-stream habitat complexity for fish and invertebrates. Eleven bank stabilization practices would be installed over a continuous 5,400-foot reach in Lower Rice Creek. The anticipated outcome of this project is the prevention of 2,874 tons per year of sediment, which is 58% of the sediment reduction goals for Lower Rice Creek.

Anoka
Ramsey
Recipient
Sherburne SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,800
Fund Source
Sherburne
Recipient
Coon Creek WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$195,158
Fund Source
Anoka
Recipient
Lower Sioux
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,233

The goal of the Cansayapi Dakota Iapi (Language) Program is to establish a permanent Dakota language program at Lower Sioux that promotes continuous language learning and speaking opportunities across the generations and community.

Renville
Recipient
Barr Engineering Co
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,498
Fund Source

This project will revise a recently completed draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) report for the Lower Minnesota River Watershed Project. The revision is to correct wasteload allocations for regulated stormwater entities.

Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$185,000
Fund Source
Wilkin
Recipient
Mower County Historical Society
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,947
Mower
Recipient
Minneapolis American Indian Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$86,159

The Minneapolis American Indian Center has developed a long-term plan to increase accessibility to and interest in Native languge instruction by increasing access to learning Dakota and Ojibwe languages and increase interest among Native youth and adult community memebers to learn their Native language.

Hennepin
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,523,464
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,211,340
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,035,420
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,255,197
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,146,426
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,417,177
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,406,456
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,456,863
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,438,933
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$803,121
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$823,500
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$570,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$595,000
Fund Source

Maintaining Existing Holdings - A Parks and Trails Strategic Objective is a program area representing DNR's commitment to one of the four pillars identified in the 25 year Legacy plan. The Legacy plan calls this Take Care of What We Have, and identifies its purpose to provide safe, high-quality park and trail experiences by regular re-investment in park and trail infrastructure, and natural resource management.

Statewide
Recipient
U of MN - MAISRC
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,700,000
Statewide