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Marshall SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source
Marshall
Recipient
Bois de Sioux WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$271,879
Fund Source
Traverse
Wilkin
Otter Tail
Grant
Stevens
Big Stone
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Area 5 - Southwest Prairie Technical Service Area
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Murray
Nobles
Pipestone
Redwood
Rock
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Goodhue SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000
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.

Goodhue
Recipient
Lyon SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$114,400
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.

Lyon
Recipient
Lyon SWCD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Lyon
Recipient
Buffalo-Red River WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$232,470
Fund Source
Clay
Wilkin
Recipient
Area 2 - Red River Valley Conservation Service
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River WD
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$551,712
Fund Source

The purpose of the Watershed Based Funding is to address priority concern 1, mitigate altered hydrology and minimize flooding and priority concern 2, minimize the transport of sediment, excess nutrients, and bacteria. The goal for the 2018/2019 is to reduce 300 tons of sediment per year, increase storage by 100 acre-feet per year, reduce nitrogen by 16,000 pounds per year and to reduce phosphorus by 800 pounds per year. Grant funds will also be used for technical staffing in order to have the capabilities of implementing the priority BMPs in the seven priority sub-watersheds.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$456,500
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to achieve a 10% reduction in overall sediment discharge to the Mississippi River from the Northeast St. Cloud Drainage Area by installing one regional underground stormwater detention and treatment facility in partnership with a Neighborhood Redevelopment Project. The project will have over 16,000 cubic feet of water storage capacity treating 35 acres of stormwater runoff and is modeled to reduce sediment by 4.5 tons, which is 10% of the sediment reduction goal for this drainage area.

Benton
Recipient
Area 1 - Red River Valley Conservation Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Grant
Kittson
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Traverse
Wilkin
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
Goodhue SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$239,965
Fund Source
Goodhue
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,800
Fund Source

This project is targeting unsealed wells in parts of the county that are highly vulnerable to drinking water contamination and are already at a high risk to
contamination from other sources.

Benton
Recipient
Goodhue 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.

Goodhue
Recipient
Lyon 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.

Lyon
Recipient
Wilkin 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.

Wilkin
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Benton
Recipient
Lyon SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Lyon
Recipient
Wilkin SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source
Wilkin
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
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,755,000
Fund Source

Funding provided through this appropriation enhanced 5,024 acres of wetland habitat. Eight wetland and shallow lake infrastructure projects were competed that enhanced 1,643 acres of wetland. Cattail spraying using a helicopter outfitted with an OHF-purchased spray unit and impacted impacted 1,762 acres. Work by the Region 3 Roving Habitat Crew enhanced 1,619 acres of wetland. Finally, survey and design work was initiated on four projects to prepare for future construction.

Aitkin
Anoka
Blue Earth
Cass
Chippewa
Grant
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Pennington
Pine
Pope
Renville
Roseau
Scott
Sibley
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,603,000
Fund Source

This phase of WMA acquisition protected 1,182.25 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 1012 by more than 170 acres. All of the acquired properties had wildlife habitat restored to the highest quality possible.

Chippewa
Cottonwood
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
McLeod
Nobles
Sibley
Stearns
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
Princeton Public Schools
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,975

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Mille Lacs
Sherburne
Isanti
Benton
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Pine
Isanti
Mille Lacs
Sherburne
Olmsted
Olmsted
Kandiyohi
Kandiyohi
Goodhue
Dakota
Steele
Washington
Washington
Benton
Cass
Dakota
St. Louis
St. Louis
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Carver
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Kanabec
Kanabec
Washington
Jackson
Douglas
Waseca
Brown
Carver
Dakota
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Dodge
Lake
McLeod
Anoka
Red Lake
Scott
Goodhue
Ramsey
Hennepin
Recipient
Mille Lacs County Agricultural Society AKA Mille Lacs County Fair
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,480

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Mille Lacs
Benton
Kanabec
Isanti
Anoka
Recipient
One Heartland, Inc.
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Chisago
Isanti
Pine
Kanabec
Kanabec
Washington
Jackson
Douglas
Waseca
Brown
Carver
Dakota
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Dodge
Lake
McLeod
Anoka
Red Lake
Scott
Goodhue
Ramsey
Hennepin
Carlton
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Stearns History Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Great River Regional Library
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,990
Benton
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Kyong Y. Juhn
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,250

Advancing Artist

Anoka
Beltrami
Benton
Cass
Dakota
Dodge
Goodhue
Hennepin
Hubbard
Morrison
Olmsted
Rice
Sherburne
Recipient
Carol A. Nelson
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Advancing Artist

Goodhue
Winona
Rice
Recipient
Rebecca K. Tolle
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Advancing Artist

Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
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
Recipient
Buffalo Ridge Chorale
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,972

Art Project

Lincoln
Lyon
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Chord-Ayres
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Lac qui Parle
Big Stone
Big Stone
Swift
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Renville
Redwood
Recipient
Cultural Awareness Organization
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Art Project

Nobles
Cottonwood
Murray
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lyon
Pipestone
Dakota
Rock
Stearns
Hennepin
Blue Earth
Faribault
Recipient
Granite Falls Historical Society AKA Andrew Volstead House Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,850

Art Project Legacy

Yellow Medicine
Chippewa
Renville
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lyon