All Projects

5326 Results for
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,201,200
Fund Source

This Partnership Agreement is a 5-year effort that will provide the technical, planning and engineering assistance for implementation of the 2013 St. Louis River Area of Concern Remedial Action Plan. Through this agreement the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and MPCA will develop detailed work plans and construction design plans for numerous sites in the project AOC and assist with critical AOC-wide issues. • 21st Avenue West Restoration Site. Outcome will be preliminary to final engineering designs and costs ready for bid package development. • Knowlton Creek Site.

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,707,000
Fund Source

Kingsbury Bay: completed engineering, design, permitting, and contracting.  Began a multi-year restoration of a wetland complex impacted by excessive sediment and non-native species in 2019 (to be completed fall 2021). 

Grassy Point: completed engineering, design, permitting, and contracting. Began a multi-year restoration of a wetland complex impacted by legacy milling waste and non-native species in 2019 (to be completed fall 2021).

St. Louis
Recipient
DNR and USFWS
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,710,000
Fund Source

The Lower Mississippi River Habitat Partnership included three distinct project components. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enhanced 700 acres of wetland and bottomland forest habitat on the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge’s (Refuge) Root River Tract in Houston County.

Dakota
Goodhue
Houston
Recipient
Scott SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$126,400
Fund Source

This project will reduce sediment and nutrient loading to the main stem and local tributaries of the Lower Minnesota River (LMR) by providing cost share for practices that treat ravine headcut and channel erosion, streambank/shoreline erosion, ephemeral gully erosion, and direct-discharging open inlet drainage systems. Targeted Best Management Practices (BMPs) will include but not be limited to grade control structures, grassed/lined waterways, water & sediment control basins, shoreline/streambank stabilization and alternative tile inlets.

Scott
Recipient
Southeast SWCD Technical Support Joint Powers Board
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
Fund Source

The Lower Mississippi River Feedlot Management in MN project will be leveraging State funding from BWSR to provide match for a United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) Regional Conservations Partners Program (RCPP). BWSR will provide technical and financial assistance to plan and design projects to mitigate feedlot runoff from smaller (less than 300 animal units or AUs*), open lot feedlots in southeastern Minnesota.

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Le Sueur County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,000
Fund Source

This project will plan, implement, and report on a community engagement strategy for identifying community/landowner opportunities, obstacles, and opinions on land management and water quality that will result in the identification of Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) input for the Sibley, Nicollet, Renville, McLeod, Rice, and LeSueur County areas of the Lower Minnesota River watershed.

Le Sueur
Rice
Recipient
Sibley County
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
Fund Source

The project will plan, implement, and report on a community engagement strategy for identifying community/landowner opportunities, obstacles, and opinions on land management and water quality that will result in the identification of Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) input for the Sibley, Nicollet, Renville, McLeod, Rice, and Le Sueur County areas of the Lower Minnesota River watershed.

Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Renville
Rice
Sibley
Recipient
Lower Sioux Indian Community
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,000

Reestablish the Lower Sioux Cultural Resource dedicated solely towards tribal youthby hiring workforce to manage and oversee programming. Increase cultural, language and beliefs into all youth programs - develop and format cultural based youth programming. Strengthen and open dialogue between the youth and elder populations to pass on language and cultural knowlege; build partnership with Lower Sioux Senior Services. Utilize technology to aid in education and awareness; create technological resources geared specifically toward youth language learning.

Renville
Recipient
Tetra Tech Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,207
Fund Source

This project will be part of a second phase to develop Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies for several lakes and streams in the watershed.

Carver
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Houston Engineering Inc
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,477
Fund Source

This project will address Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA), and public comments on draft Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) studies and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) reports, preliminary draft TMDL studies, and public noticed TMDL studies and WRAPS reports for the Lower Red River Watershed and the Lake of the Woods Watershed and produce final versions of the TMDL studies and WRAPS reports for each watershed.

Kittson
Lake of the Woods
Marshall
Roseau
Recipient
Barr Engineering Co
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$67,039
Fund Source

This project addresses six lakes that have aquatic recreation impairments and one creek reach that has a bacteria impairment for E. coli. The project will evaluate the water quality impairments, complete pollutant source assessments, and establish loading capacities and allocations for the impairments.

Hennepin
Recipient
RESPEC
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source
The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate a watershed model using HSPF modeling.
Marshall
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$570,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$468,000
Fund Source

This appropriation is for the administration of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.

Ramsey
Recipient
Legislative Coordinating Commission
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$608,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$607,000
Fund Source

This appropriation is for the administration of the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council.

Ramsey
Recipient
Mower County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,944

To document in 10 oral history interviews the history of Lyle schools and businesses.

Mower
Recipient
Southwest Minnesota Regional Research Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,576
To survey, preserve, arrange and plan to microfilm records of twenty Lyon County townships.
Lyon
Recipient
Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000

To hire qualified professionals to repair the storefront of the Lyric Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and home of Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance.

St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,747
MNHS continues its collaboration with Macalester College and the Somali community. Working closely with the Somali Museum of Minnesota, interviewer Ibrahim Hirsi began conducting eight final interviews for a Somali oral history project. Plans for FY17 include the completion of the project, which now consists of 57 interviews with Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
Statewide
Recipient
City of Madison
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,100

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of Madison City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
City of Mahnomen
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,550

To hire a qualified architect to conduct a feasibility study of the Mahnomen City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Mahnomen SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,550
Fund Source

This project will complete an inventory of drainage systems to prioritize locations for structural erosion control practices and buffer strips that will reduce sediment loading into Marsh Creek and Lower Wild Rice River downstream, which are both impaired by turbidity. An inspection plan and database will also be developed to enhance the county drainage ditch inspection program.

Mahnomen
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
Mankato - Knollwood Park
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$524,085
Fund Source

Construct sewer extension to serve unsewered area

Blue Earth
Recipient
Mankato - Stormwater
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$628,193
Fund Source

Construct stormwater BMPs to meet TMDL wasteload allocation

Blue Earth
Recipient
Northfield Arts Guild
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,390
To produce a manuscript on the history of the Northfield Arts Guild Visual Arts Program.
Rice
Recipient
American Aviation Heritage Foundation
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to produce a manuscript on the history of the Northwest Aeronautical Corporation.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Fund Source

This project designed a new sugar shack at Maplewood State Park. This sugar shack will provide space for interpretive programming centered on maple syrup sugaring. The Maplewood Friends Group is securing construction funding for this collaborative project.

Otter Tail
Recipient
Maplewood Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To document in oral history interviews the history of the Maplewood Fire Department.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Maplewood
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,500
To hire a qualified historian to conduct a historic context study for the City of Maplewood.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Marine on St. Croix
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,320
To complete stabilization and rehabilitation of the masonry foundation of the Marine Engine House and Village Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Washington
Recipient
Twin City Model Railroad Museum
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire qualified exhibit consultants to create new interpretive and instructional signage for a museum exhibit.
Ramsey
Recipient
DNR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000,000
Fund Source

The primary goal of the Marsh Lake Ecosystem Restoration Project is, “To return the Marsh Lake area ecosystem to a less degraded and more natural condition by restoring ecosystem structure and functions.” Work was completed on this project in March 2020 and consisted of a new water control structure to allow for water level management, restoration of the Pomme de Terre River to its original channel, and establishment of a fishway to allow for movement of native fish.

Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Lyon County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,859

To hire qualified consultants to evaluate the Marshall-Lyon County Library, now used as the Lyon County Historical Society, for possible inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

Lyon
Recipient
Martin County SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$63,458
Fund Source

Martin Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) is proposing to monitor six lakes sites and two stream sites in the Blue Earth River watershed. The lake sites will be monitored by kayak and the stream sites will be monitored from the shore. Sites will be analyzed for field conditions and water chemistry. Martin SWCD will subcontract with Faribault SWCD to monitor fourteen stream sites and with Blue Earth SWCD to monitor one lake site and three stream sites.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Martin
Recipient
Martin Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,698
Fund Source

Martin SWCD is proposing to monitor three lakes sites and three stream sites in the East Fork Des Moines River watershed. The lake sites will be monitored by kayak and the stream sites will be monitored from the shore. Sites will be analyzed for field conditions and water chemistry.

Martin
Recipient
Fox Lake Conservation League
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
Fund Source

The Lorenz parcel, highest priority within the core habitat area Caron WMA, was selected to expand enhancement, restoration and acquisition activities. Local source native plant materials will be incorporated in the restoration of prairie, wetland and riparian habitats.

Martin
Recipient
Freshwater Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$116,000
Statewide
Recipient
City of Maynard
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

To hire a qualified historian to complete the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Maynard State Bank.

Chippewa
Recipient
Minnesota Council on Foundations
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To document in 8-14 oral history interviews the history of philanthropy in Minnesota.

Statewide
Recipient
Martin County Historical Society
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,683

To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript on the history of Martin County.

Martin