The goal for Project TALK (Technology-Assisted Language Keepers) is to increase technology-based resources and to create more opportunities for urban American Indian community members to learn their Native language(s). Objective 1: By the end of 24 months, continue to offer online introductory and intermediate language instruction classes in Ojibwe and Dakota, reaching 1,500 community members, mostly adults, with 67% reporting their level of fluency/understanding of their Indigenous language increased.
To research and share knowledge among diverse partners around Anishnaabe cultural practices and their ecological legacies in fire-dependent pine forests.
The Clay SWCD will partner with the Buffalo-Red River Watershed District (BRRWD) and landowners to stabilize gullies to the Red River. The first priority will be to address ongoing erosion in Snakey Creek. Snakey Creek is the outlet of County Ditch No. 41 which has become the most critically eroding gully contributing sediment to the Red River in our targeted reach. When stabilized, sediment load to the river will be reduced by 1404 tons per year, and Total Phosphorus will be reduced by 1615 pounds per year.
This grant will fund about 45 projects in High Groundwater Priority areas, High Surface Water Priority area, and/or in sub-watershed with stressed/impaired streams for the four WinLaC planning regions. These practices will reduce overland total nitrogen loading and loading to groundwater; reduce overland total phosphorous and sediment; and increase headwater storage and/or reduce peak flow rates and sediment loading.
This is a joint project with the City of Mound and Hennepin County to improve the regional trail at-grade crossing of CSAH 15 in downtown Mound. The project is being led by Hennepin County and hs an estimated cost of $555,000, of which Three Rivers has agreed to pay one-third ($185,000). Crossing improvements include road reconfiguration to create a safety island, reduction of road traffic lanes, removal of a right turn road lane, and addition of a Rapid Flashing Beacon crossing signal.
