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Recipient
U of MN
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$998,000

Promising new carp deterrent system is tested in the Mississippi River along with an existing deterrent and predators; 99% blockage is suggested and Fish and Wildlife Service is a partner.

Statewide
Recipient
Afton Historical Society and Museum
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,778
Washington
Recipient
Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$89,446
Clay
Recipient
Lake of the Woods County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,800
Lake of the Woods
Recipient
Delano Franklin Township Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Wright
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,010,424
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,146,731
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,233,959
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,006,732
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$967,993
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$886,996
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,047,050
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$274,364
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$675,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$539,510
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$476,600
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$472,773
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$472,773
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$700,000
Fund Source

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.

Statewide
Recipient
Lake County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,152
Lake
Recipient
Sibley County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$92,924
Sibley
Recipient
Pine County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,905
Pine
Recipient
Westonka Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,960
Hennepin
Recipient
Edina Morningside Community Church
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,986
Hennepin
Recipient
Edina Morningside Community Church
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Hennepin
Recipient
University of South Carolina
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$95,029
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,730
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has been monitoring for contaminants of emerging concern in Minnesota's surface water since 2007. These contaminants include a wide variety of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and other chemicals that can harm fish and wildlife and human health. One group of these chemicals, disinfection by-products, are formed when water is treated with chlorine. Some of these chemicals are cancer-causing and highly toxic.

Statewide
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

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.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Island Park Village Hall Preservation Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,550
Hennepin
Recipient
Isuroon
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

In summer 2020 Isuroon will be piloting a new program, designed by and for young Somali people. The focus is on creating a space for Somali youth to discuss the realities of being a first- or second-generation immigrant with the compounding factors of their racial, linguistic, ethnic and religious identities. This space will provide resources on how to both heal and lead in and through the arts and nature.

Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,016
Fund Source

This contract is for Itasca County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) to assist in the public participation activities in Rainy Basin Watersheds of Little Fork and Big Fork.

Itasca
Recipient
City of Appleton
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$64,000

The partners will develop three itineraries and explore additional opportunities to further develop local Heritage Tourism.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Traverse
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Elk River
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$136,367
Sherburne
Recipient
Lind House Association, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Brown
Recipient
Apple Valley, City of
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
Fund Source

The project involves installation of a number of stormwater best management practices in the road right-of-way and on adjacent public property during reconstruction of Johnny Cake Ridge Road and installation of the Dakota County North Creek Greenway. Practices implemented will include boulevard raingardens, tree trenches, and underground sediment collection practices.

Dakota
Recipient
Ka Joog
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$43,380

Ka Joog and Afro American Development Association (AADA) will partner to create a platform for Somali American youth to learn traditional Somali artistic mediums and present their learning through public presentations that will ignite community conversations. Art clubs and public forums will be implemented in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Clay counties and will promote inter-generational dialogue on taboo topics within the Somali American and cross-cultural acceptance with non-Somali audiences.

Anoka
Carver
Clay
Dakota
Faribault
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Polk
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Steele
Washington
Recipient
Otter Tail County
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$298,000
Fund Source

Otter Tail County will partner with the Buffalo-Red River Watershed District and the West Otter Tail and Wilkin SWCDs to stabilize the outlet of Judicial Ditch No. 2 which has become the most critically eroding gully contributing sediment to the Otter Tail River. When stabilized, sediment to the river will be reduced by 988 tons per year, and total phosphorus will be reduced by 840 pounds per year. The sediment reduction associated with this project is 7 percent of the 6,868 tons per year goal set by the Lower Otter Tail River Total Maximum Daily Load.

Otter Tail
Wilkin
Recipient
Bois de Sioux WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$327,000
Fund Source
Traverse
Wilkin

The primary goal of the Humanities Center’s Education Initiative is to increase student engagement and success; the foundation is strengthening the teacher-student relationship. Drawing upon the multiplicity of experiences and cultures represented in schools, educators gain insight into how to engage every student authentically and respectfully.

Recipient
Polish American Medical Society of Minnesota
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Kim Atkins
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Fund Source

Revise Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) lesson plans about karst geology and groundwater protection, to align with new Minnesota Science Standards (2019) and provide grade level recommendations. The project will add or remove activities so that the lessons better support grade-specific standards and approaches to learning. The plans will also provide recommendations regarding communicating to local teachers in southeast Minnesota and how to support the use of the lesson plans.

Statewide
Recipient
Kasson Alliance for Restoration Inc
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,328
Dodge
Recipient
Black Dog WMO
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$230,000
Fund Source

In 2010, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency listed Keller Lake as impaired for excess nutrients. An in-lake alum application was identified as the primary phosphorus load reduction option for controlling internal phosphorus load in Keller Lake. A recently completed in-lake management feasibility study report indicates that the in-lake alum application is the most cost-effective implementation project that remains for Keller Lake.

Dakota
Recipient
Wenck Associates, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$187,625
Fund Source

The purpose of this work is to develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs; a federal clean Water Act requirement) for streams and lakes in the Kettle River and Upper St. Croix watersheds. This and other technical information will be used to develop a separate report called a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report.

Aitkin
Carlton
Kanabec
Pine
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,874
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$108,739

Minnesota's twelve 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 $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant. Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Kitchigami Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$106,812

Minnesota's twelve 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 $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant. Kitchigami Regional Library (KRL) is a consolidated regional public library system in north central Minnesota.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Wadena
Recipient
Zeitgeist / Lake Superior Steelhead Assoc
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$891,000
Fund Source

Two major stream reroutes:
**Constructed two beneficial off-channel ponds

Reworked two log jams:
**One removed
**One reconstructed/rechannelled

Built approximately 650 linear feet of toewood benches

Built 1,100+ linear feet of graded, inside point bars

Built 15+ grade control structures
**Boulder clusters (for habitat enhancement)
**Constructed riffles

Placed 20+ log roller, large wood, habitat structures

Placed 75+ cubic yards of spawning gravel

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Zeitgeist / Lake Superior Steelhead Assoc
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$927,000
Fund Source

We assessed, designed rehabilitation features and permitted 7200 linear feet of river reach in prime spawning areas. We completed construction on over 2200 linear feet of the reach. 

SPECIFIC ITEMS: 

*Installed approx. 400 feet of toewood bench. 

*Graded approx. 500 feet of shoreline to allow river access to floodplain. 

*Installed multiple log rollers/habitat structures. 

*Installed multiple grade control structures. 

*Created new riffles. 

*Rehabilitated the riparian zone in the 2200' stretch using: 

Lake
Recipient
Douglas County Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Douglas
Recipient
Koochiching County SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$77,458
Fund Source

The Big Fork River Watershed Assessment will include the waters of the Big Fork, Sturgeon River, Caldwell Brook, Bear River, and Bowstring River. This Assessment will also include Mirror Lake, Battle Lake, Bass Lake, Larson Lake, Gunn Lake, Coon Sandwick Lake, Busties Lake, Dead Horse Lake, North Star Lake, Burns Lake, Big Ole Lake, Big Island Lake, Bello Lake, Maple Lake, Long Lake, Jessie Lake, Trestle Lake, Clear Lake, Dora Lake, Moose Lake, Shallow Pond Lake, and Island Lake.

Itasca
Koochiching
Recipient
St. Croix Watershed Research Station
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$213,257
Fund Source

Previous research by the St. Croix Watershed Research Station (SCWRS) has identified lake physics (temperature and oxygen) and nutrient recycling (nitrogen and phosphorus) as key drivers of lake algal blooms. SCWRS will conduct monitoring consistent with the prior research efforts by re-deploying three moored buoys to collect data throughout the 2019 ice-free season, including surface water samples. Additionally, SCWRS will deploy an in situ flourometer to measure total algae and cyanobacteria concentrations and will collect and analyze cyanobacterial toxins.

Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
Lake County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$220,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is for Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District to continue to assist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s watershed approach and Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) process in the Rainy River Headwaters and Cloquet River watersheds. As part of this, Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District will lead efforts to increase levels of civic engagement and community participation in support of the current WRAPS process.

Lake
Recipient
Goodhue SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$181,900
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to reduce peak stormwater flow discharge, sediment and phosphorus from directly entering Lake Pepin by installing two stormwater infiltration basins treating a total of 15.8 acres of developed residential and commercial area in Lake City in conjunction with the Highway 61 road reconstruction project scheduled for 2020 reducing total phosphorus by 13 pounds per year and sediment by 2 tons per year.

Goodhue