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MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust Inc

The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust is using this appropriation to purchase a total of approximately 100 acres of land and donated to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Many benefits are anticipated from this project, including improved habitat connectivity, protection of native species, improved water quality in the Minnesota River, and increased public access to natural lands for activities such as hiking, hunting, and fishing. Restoration and management plans will be completed for all acquired lands.

Carver
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$246,000

Waste streams often contain unutilized resources that if properly extracted or otherwise utilized could be used to provide additional sources of renewable energy or other benefits. Wastewater is one of the primary candidate waste streams because of its nutrient content and researchers have been developing technologies such as microbial fuel cells and algal-based biofuel production in order make use of these nutrients.

Statewide
Recipient
Stevens County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,350
To hire qualified professionals to research and write an exhibit script on the history of Stevens County residents.
Stevens
Recipient
St. Louis and Lake Counties Regional Rail Authority (RRA)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250,000
Fund Source

Development of the Mesabi Trail with trail connections to connect Grand Rapids, LaPrairie, and Coleraine with the Mesabi Trail.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
St. Louis and Lake Counties Regional Rail Authority (RRA)
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$330,000
Fund Source

Planning, engineering, right of way acquisition, or construction of portions of the Mesabi Trail in the corridor from Giants Ridge to Tower

Recipient
The Conservation Fund
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,174,000
Fund Source

Using the best science and biological data available, this project will protect sites that the DNR and has identified as high priority habitat acquisitions that are vital to support specific wildlife targets in the Metro Section Planning region. The Conservation Fund (TCF) will proactively contact and negotiate land protection with willing landowners in these complexes in coordination with DNR and local conservation groups and local communities to maximize wildlife populations of statewide and local importance.

Anoka
Hennepin
Isanti
Recipient
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

It is critical to train new staff, create modeling protocols for new BMPs, refine and calibrate models, and test ever-advancing modeling applications. The Metro Conservation District?s (MCD) Sub-Watershed Analysis (SWA) program provides these capacity-building services and unites efforts across 11 SWCDs. MCD proposes to analyze an additional 15 subwatersheds. The analyses will identify the location and estimated cost/benefit relationship for BMPs, evolve with new technology, and share discoveries metro-wide.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Washington
Wright
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,645

The purpose of this grant is to create a clear pathway for college students to achieve fluency in the Ojibwe language and to graduate prepared teachers of the Ojibwe language with Kindergarten through 12th Grade teaching certifications. This will be done by expanding the curriculum to expand the University’s Ojibwe language offerings, building the University and K-12 Tribal/Immersion/Ojibwe-teaching schools partnerships for greater language fluency, and producing more fluent and well prepared graduates.

Recipient
Metro State University
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$62,645

The overall purpose of this initiative is to welcome more American Indians into the University to increase the number of speakers of the Dakota and Ojibwe languages. This will be done by the enrollment of adults in the Dakota and Ojibwe language immersion model classes, as well as, enrolling youth into the youth classes. The University will offer immersion model 100-level courses in Dakota and Ojibwe languages and provide scholarships to ensure accessibility and participation.

Recipient
MN VNWR Trust, Friends of Miss, GRG, MLT, TPL
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,720,000
Fund Source

Metro Big Rivers' restoration and enhancement partners (FMR and GRG) achieved their goals, converting through restoration a former rail yard in the urban core to 32 acres of prairie and enhancing 98 acres of prairie and forest at four other public conservation sites in the metropolitan area. The easement partner (MLT) exceeded goals and permanently protected 131 acres under two conservation easements in Washington County.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Washington
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000,000
Fund Source

This project will establish a groundwater monitoring network in the 11 county metropolitan area. The network will provide information about aquifer characteristics and natural water trends by monitoring healthy aquifers (non-stressed systems). The project will also develop an automated system that captures groundwater level and water use data. This system will enhance evaluation of changes in aquifers that are stressed by pumping from existing wells.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Wright
Sherburne
Recipient
Area 4 - Metropolitan SWCDs Technical Service Area
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Ensuring natural resource practitioners are applying state-of-the-art approaches is the best way to achieve optimum Best Management Practice (BMP) selection, design, and placement in the landscape, thereby maximizing Clean Water Fund (CWF) benefits. To that end, it is critical to train new staff, create modeling protocols for new BMPs, refine and calibrate models, and test ever-advancing modeling applications.

Scott
Recipient
MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust Inc; Friends of the Mississippi River; Great River Greening; MN Land Trust
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,630,000
Fund Source

Metro Big Rivers successfully completed work with the Phase 8 / ML2018 OHF appropriation, exceeding amended acreage goals by 16% and completing work on 701 acres. Partners protected 87 acres through fee title acquisition and 199 acres through permanent conservation easement, restored 6 acres and enhanced 409 acres.

MBR 8 expended 97% of the OHF funds granted and leveraged the grant by 60% with over $1.5 million in other funds and landowner donation of easement value.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Sherburne
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Council Environmental Services
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$176,657
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$123,343
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$238,500
Fund Source

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s (MPCA) Watershed Pollutant Load Monitoring Network (WPLMN) forms the core of a long-term program designed to measure and compare regional differences and trends in pollutant loadings from Minnesota’s mainstem rivers and the outlets of major watersheds and subwatersheds draining to these rivers.

Hennepin
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$965,841
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$965,841

Minnesota's twelve regional library systems, which encompass more than 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, can 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 library system is eligible to receive a formula-driven allocation from the annual $2.5 million Minnesota Regional Library System Legacy Grant. Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA) is a federated regional public library system in the Twin Cities Metro Area in central Minnesota.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Metropolitan Library Service Agency
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,141,083
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,141,083

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.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Winona County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,327
Winona
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,204
Scott
Recipient
Hennepin County Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,005
To purchase microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Hennepin
Recipient
Benton County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Benton
Recipient
Truman Historical Association
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,885
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Martin
Recipient
Wadena County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Hubbard
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
City of Hokah
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,690
To add 33 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Houston
Recipient
Dodge County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,094
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Dodge
Recipient
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,150
To microfilm township records for eight Kandiyohi County townships to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Isanti County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To add 126 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Statewide
Isanti
Recipient
Hennepin County Library
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.
Hennepin
Recipient
Coon Creek WD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$382,772
Fund Source

This project will reduce sediment and nutrient loading by 141 tons of sediment and 120 pounds of phosphorus annually while improving in-stream and riparian habitat by restoring a 2/3-mile corridor of Middle Sand Creek. This project expands upon the Lower Sand Creek Corridor Restoration project funded in part by a FY18 CWF grant and results in the restoration of over a mile of contiguous stream corridor.

Anoka
Recipient
Blue Earth County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,000
Fund Source

The primary goal of this project is to develop a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) lead comprehensive Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) report to be used on the local level. Achieving this goal will require sound working relationships between local units of government, citizens, and state government. The Lakes Engagement Team will gather input from these groups and contribute towards the creation of a Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report that can be utilized by local decision-makers.

Blue Earth
Renville
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,650
Fund Source
The goal of this project is to design and install two watershed interpretive signs: one to be placed at Minneopa State Park and one at Fort Ridgely State Park to inform the public about watershed, water quality issues, and how someone can improve water quality.
Blue Earth
Nicollet
Recipient
Midway Chamber of Commerce Foundation
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,400
Ramsey
Recipient
Milaca Area Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
To hire a qualified architect to conduct a conditions assessment of the Milaca City Hall, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Crow Wing County
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,000
Fund Source

Park improvements at Milford Mine Memorial Park in Crow Wing County.

Recipient
Richfield Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$810
Hennepin
Recipient
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,361
To hire professional conservators to assess historically significant collections and write a long range preservation plan.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,694
To provide appropriate mold remediation for collections items.
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
St Louis, South SWCD
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$186,475
Fund Source

The Miller Hill Mall, a regional shopping destination located in the City of Duluth, is the largest contiguous impervious site in the Miller Creek Watershed. The draft Total Maximum Daily Load Study identified heated stormwater runoff as a major contributor to the creek's excessive heat loading problem, which negatively impacts the creek's native brook trout population. The Mall, along with eight other entities in the watershed, was assigned a reduction goal as part of the effort to address the temperature problem in this creek.

St. Louis
Recipient
Milwaukee Road Heritage Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,790
To hire qualified professionals to write an interpretive plan for the Milwaukee Road Heritage Center.
Chippewa
Recipient
Barr Engineering-Duluth
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,984
Fund Source
The overall goal of this project is to further develop performance standards, design standards, or other tools to enable the implementation of low-impact development and other stormwater management techniques.
Statewide
Recipient
City of Minneapolis (Community Planning & Economic Development)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,000
Hennepin