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Recipient
Minnesota State University, Mankato
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,438
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,324
Fund Source

This project goal is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at seventeen stream locations, to record and submit all data collected through this process, and to provide the information necessary for the calculation of water quality pollutant loads using the FLUX32 program.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Nicollet
Watonwan
Recipient
Milaca Area Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$675
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$865
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
Area 3 - Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Area 6 - South Central Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
McLeod
Nicollet
Renville
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Mille Lacs SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Blue Earth County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Morrison
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Olmsted
Recipient
Sibley SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Sibley
Recipient
Blue Earth County SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Blue Earth
Recipient
Olmsted SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
Fund Source
Olmsted
Recipient
Sibley SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,000
Fund Source

Sibley SWCD will implement a cost share program aimed at providing financial assistance to landowners to seal abandoned or unused wells, as directed by the 2013-2023 Sibley County Water Plan. Priority will be given to wells in areas that are highly vulnerable.

Sibley
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$175,000
Fund Source

These funds will be utilized in cost-share for landowners to install Agricultural Best Management Practices following Little Rock Lake TMDL Implementation Plan. Example of projects include Feedlot Improvements, Waste Storage Facilities, Erosion Control BMPs, Filter Strips and Streambank Stabilizations. An estimated 830 pounds per year of phosphorus and 800 tons of sediment will be reduced annually.

Benton
Morrison
Recipient
DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$877,700
Fund Source

Many of Minnesota's wetlands have been lost and the remainder degraded.  Recent tiling and ditching have accelerated this situation.  Through this program, shallow lakes and wetlands were designed, constructed, and intensively managed to benefit wetland wildlife and Minnesota residents.  Habitat accomplishments from this proposal have enhanced 19,365 acres of wetlands and shallow lakes to benefit waterfowl and wetland wildlife.  Work was accomplish through constructed infrastructure, cattail control, and a significant prescribed wetland burn.

Aitkin
Anoka
Beltrami
Cass
Chippewa
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Isanti
Jackson
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
St. Louis
Stearns
Wabasha
Washington
Wilkin
Wright
Recipient
Pheasants Forever with USFWS
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,332,700
Fund Source

The goal of this program was to accelerate the protection of 887 acres as Waterfowl Production Area's. Pheasants Forever successfully protected eight parcels totaling 1,554.39 acres of prairie wetland and grasslands providing excellent habitat for numerous wildlife.
In total, we under spent on our budget, over delivered on acre goals, and over delivered on match leverage received.

Becker
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
Pope
Sibley
Stearns
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,143,900
Fund Source

This phase of WMA acquisition protected 1802.55 acres of prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitat as State Wildlife Management Areas open to public hunting. With these 16 acquisition we have exceeded our planned acres of 1362 by more than 400 acres. Breaking down acres by ecological section we acquired 282 acres in the metro and 1520 acres in the prairie.  We have a balance of $52,798 of grant funds and $81,837.48 in program income that will be returned despite exceeding our acre goals.

Blue Earth
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
Sibley
Waseca
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,740,000
Fund Source

This phase of WMA acquisition protected 1,260.22 acres of prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitat as State Wildlife Management Areas open to public hunting. With these 9 acquisition we have exceeded our planned acres of 1030 by more than 230.22 acres. All of the acquired properties had wildlife habitat restored to the highest quality possible.

Carver
Douglas
Fillmore
Martin
Meeker
Nobles
Renville
Sibley
Steele
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
In His Steps Ballet and Performing Arts Company
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

ACHF Grant for General Operations

Kanabec
Pine
Isanti
Chisago
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Lakes and Pines Community Action Council, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,703

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Mille Lacs County Agricultural Society AKA Mille Lacs County Fair
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,475

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Mille Lacs
Sherburne
Kanabec
Isanti
Benton
Recipient
City of Mora
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,241

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Kanabec
Pine
Mille Lacs
Isanti
Chisago
Aitkin
Washington
Carver
Ramsey
Hennepin
Sherburne
Stearns
Wright
Recipient
Karen V. Nelson AKA Karen Nelson
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000

ACHF Individual Artist Grant

Mille Lacs
Kanabec
Recipient
One Heartland, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Pine
Mille Lacs
Carlton
St. Louis
Kanabec
Isanti
Chisago
Recipient
Paradise Community Theatre Association, Inc. AKA Paradise Theatre
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Kanabec
Pine
Isanti
Aitkin
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Princeton Public Schools
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,975

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Mille Lacs
Sherburne
Isanti
Benton
Recipient
Tusen Tack
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,150

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Isanti
Kanabec
Chisago
Pine
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community AKA Hallberg Center for the Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,950

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Washington
Pine
Mille Lacs
Ramsey
Ramsey
Hennepin
Recipient
Wyoming Area Creative Arts Community AKA Hallberg Center for the Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

ACHF Grant for General Operations

Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Washington
Ramsey
Anoka
Hennepin
Recipient
Plainview Area History Center
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,338
Olmsted
Wabasha
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Todd
Douglas
Morrison
Stearns
Recipient
Mower County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,345
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Dodge
Freeborn
Mower
Olmsted
Steele
Recipient
City of Canby
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase two microfilm reader/printers to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,945
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District, Isanti County, Great River Greening, Stearns County SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,047,100
Fund Source

The Anoka Sand Plain Partnership restored / enhanced 3,714 acres of priority prairie, savanna, forest, wetland, and shoreline habitat on public lands and waters within the Anoka Sand Plain EcoRegion within the Metropolitan Urbanizing, Forest-Prairie, and Northern Forest regions. Total R/E acreage achieved over the course of the appropriation is 126% of our stated acreage goals, and was accomplished through a robust partnership of four direct recipients improving a total of 16 priority sites including WMAs, state forest, national wildlife refuges, city and county lands. 

Anoka
Benton
Isanti
Morrison
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to use the We Are Water MN exhibit and their technical knowledge in relationship-building and storytelling to increase community capacity for sustainable watershed management in the Cannon River, Cedar River, Mississippi-Headwaters, Mississippi-Grand Rapids, Mississippi-Twin Cities, Red Lake River, Rum River and St. Louis River watersheds.

Benton
Carlton
Dakota
Hennepin
Itasca
Mille Lacs
Mower
Polk