All Projects

430 Results for
Recipient
LimnoTech
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,696
Fund Source

The goal of the project is the development of an overall strategy for reduction of turbidity/TSS, with sets of sediment reduction initiatives and actions for various sources, to address the Minnesota River Turbidity TMDL and the South Metro Mississippi River TSS TMDL.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Traverse
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Redwood-Cottonwood Rivers Control Area Joint Powers Board
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,714
Fund Source

The overall goal of this project is to perform water quality monitoring duties to accomplish MPCA’s SWAG monitoring efforts at the four sites listed in Section IV of this application for the Middle Minnesota River stream sites selected in Renville, Redwood and Brown counties and allow for the assessment of aquatic life and aquatic recreation use for those reaches of the minor streams.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Le Sueur
McLeod
Nicollet
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Water Resources Center, Minnesota State University- Mankato
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,546
Fund Source

The goal of this project is monitor, record, and submit the dataset necessary for assessment of aquatic recreation use with the Watonwan Watershed.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Martin
Watonwan
Recipient
Hawk Creek Watershed Project
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,217
Fund Source

This project will monitor six sites within the Minnesota River Basin: Hawk Creek near Maynard, Hawk Creek near Granite Falls, Beaver Creek near Beaver Falls, Yellow Medicine River near Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine River near Hanley Falls, and Spring Creek near Hanley Falls. The sites will be monitored according to MPCA’s Major Watershed Load Monitoring (WPLMN) Standard Operating Procedure, which is the procedure being followed for sites currently monitored by the Hawk Creek Watershed Project (HCWP).

Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Benton
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
Fund Source
Benton
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,300
Fund Source
Benton
Recipient
Cottonwood SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,958
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Recipient
Lyon SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$128,184
Fund Source
Lyon
Recipient
McLeod SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$130,927
Fund Source
McLeod
Recipient
Cottonwood SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Cottonwood
Recipient
Lyon SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Lyon
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$204,960
Fund Source
Benton
Recipient
Yellow Medicine River WD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$814,603
Fund Source
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,631,000
Fund Source

This proposal accelerates the strategic permanent protection of 1,003 acres (241 wetlands and 762 grasslands) of Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) open to public hunting in Minnesota. Pheasants Forever (PF) will strategically acquire parcels that are adjacent to existing public land or create corridors between complexes. All acquisitions will occur in the prairie, prairie/forest transition, or metro regions.

Becker
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Faribault
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Pope
Renville
Rice
Stevens
Swift
Wilkin
Wright
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,300,000
Fund Source

The program accelerated the protection of 550 acres of prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitat as State Wildlife Management Areas open to public hunting.

Cottonwood
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
McLeod
Renville
Stearns
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,300,000
Fund Source

The table below provides a short summary of the acres and sites accomplished. We enhanced or restored 59,495 acres in 458 separate habitat projects.Project Type # Sites # AcresFencing for conserv grazing 6 721grassland conversion 33 1,124Invasive Species Control 43 1,599mowing 3 104Prescribed burn 214 48,368Restoration 13 123Woody Removal 146 7,457

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
Meeker
Morrison
Norman
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Roseau
Statewide
Stearns
Stevens
Traverse
Washington
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,870,000
Fund Source

This proposal impacts shallow lakes and wetlands in Minnesota through the design and construction of projects, enhancement work done by DNR roving habitat crews, and shallow lakes work identified and initiated through the DNR Shallow Lakes program.  Ten thousand acres of wetlands were enhanced by these activities.

Aitkin
Benton
Carver
Cottonwood
Freeborn
Itasca
Jackson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Roseau
Todd
Wilkin
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,060,000
Fund Source
This programmatic proposal accelerates the protection and restoration of 1,073 acres of strategic prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitats as State Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) open to public hunting. Pheasants Forever (PF) will be protecting parcels that build onto or create a corridor between existing protected lands which will be transferred to the MN Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) to be included as a WMA. All acquisitions will occur within the prairie, prairie/forest transition, and metro planning regions.
Big Stone
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Rock
Sibley
Stearns
Swift
Washington
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Mille Lacs County Agricultural Society AKA Mille Lacs County Fair
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Mille Lacs
Sherburne
Kanabec
Isanti
Benton
Recipient
Mille Lacs County Agricultural Society AKA Mille Lacs County Fair
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,535

ACHF Grant for Organizations

Mille Lacs
Sherburne
Kanabec
Isanti
Benton
Recipient
Great River Greening, Anoka Conservation District and National Wild Turkey Federation
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,050,000
Fund Source

With funding from the Outdoor Heritage Fund and other leveraged sources, the Anoka Sand Plain Partnership restored/enhanced 1,866 acres of priority wildlife habitat within the Anoka Sand Plain and in the Rum River watershed in east-central Minnesota. 

Anoka
Benton
Chisago
Isanti
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Sherburne
Recipient
ACD, GRG, Sherburne SWCD, Wild Turkey Fed, MLT
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,573,000
Fund Source

The Anoka Sand Plain (ASP) Partnership protected 423 acres through conservation easement, restored/enhanced 768 acres of Prairie/Oak Savanna, Wetland, Habitat, and Woodland/Forest habitats, including rescue and relocation of 11,000 rare plants, at sites centered around the DNR's ASP ecoregion. Overall, we reached 112% of our acreage goals, and an additional 5.4 miles of shoreline.

Anoka
Benton
Isanti
Morrison
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
McLeod County Historical Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To identify archaeological collections for enhanced public access to pre-historic McLeod County.
McLeod
Recipient
Minnesota Humanities Center
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$120,000
Fund Source

This project will use the We Are Water MN traveling exhibit and the Minnesota Humanities Center's approach to community engagement, relationship building, and storytelling, to increase community capacity for sustainable watershed management in six Minnesota watersheds.

Aitkin
Anoka
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Itasca
Lake
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Wabasha
Washington
Watonwan
Recipient
Metropolitan Council-Environmental Services
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405,500
Fund Source

This project will provide condition monitoring and problem investigation monitoring at the following sites.
Mississippi River: Tributaries include Bassett Creek, Cannon River, Crow River, and Minnehaha Creek.
Minnesota River: Tributaries include Eagle Creek,Riley Creek, and Valley Creek tributary to the St. Croix River

Anoka
Benton
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Le Sueur
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Nicollet
Pine
Ramsey
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Valley Community Concert Association
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,350

Art Project

Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Swift
Lac qui Parle
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Anoka
McLeod
Recipient
Hinterland Arts Council
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,766

Art Project

Redwood
Cottonwood
Murray
Lyon
Brown
Recipient
Loose Gravel Music Festival
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Redwood
Lyon
Cottonwood
Murray
Recipient
Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Cottonwood
Jackson
Lyon
Martin
Murray
Nobles
Recipient
Minnesota Pottery Festival
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

McLeod
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

McLeod
Recipient
Rhythm of the River
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Nobles
Jackson
Martin
Cottonwood
Cottonwood
Hennepin
Rock
Lake
Blue Earth
Recipient
Marshall Area Farmers Market
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000

Art Project

Lyon
Recipient
Dassel Area Historical Society
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,416

Art Project

Wright
Meeker
McLeod
Kandiyohi
Stearns
Sherburne
Isanti
Anoka
Anoka
Washington
Ramsey
Carver
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Benton
Morrison
Brown
Renville
Marshall
Douglas
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
City of Spicer
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,075

Art Project

Kandiyohi
Stearns
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Renville
Meeker
McLeod
Recipient
Cultural Awareness Organization
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,865

Art Project

Nobles
Murray
Jackson
Cottonwood
Lyon
Rock
Pipestone
Martin
Hennepin
Dakota
Blue Earth
Recipient
Crow River Youth Choir
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,470

Art Project

McLeod
Recipient
Department of Public Transformation
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500

Art Legacy Project Planning

Yellow Medicine
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
Renville
Recipient
Hutchinson Center for the Arts
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Art Project

McLeod