All Projects

132 Results for
Recipient
Mississippi Headwaters Board
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,000
Fund Source

The grant will use local data to develop stormwater planning options that prioritize, target, and measure the effectiveness of Best Management Practices and allow local city officials to make decisions on stormwater Best management Practices that reduce pollutants in the stormwatershed.

Aitkin
Cass
Crow Wing
Itasca
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$141,000
Fund Source

This project is the first step toward a regional based implementation approach to reduce phosphorus and total suspended solids in the 12 cities on the Mississippi River. By the time this project is approved, a stormwater retrofit analysis will be completed for the cities, and the MHB will be discussing with them a strategic way to implement the study on a regional scale. By funding this project, you are encouraging the future implementation in a strategic and organized process.

Itasca
Recipient
Benton SWCD
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Fund Source

Little Rock Lake experiences severe algae blooms due to excess phosphorus and these blooms are the worst known regionally. The goal of this project is to reduce algae blooms, improve water clarity, and avoid risk of drinking water contamination. The project will result in installing one farmer nutrient management project , four cover crops, two lakeshore buffer strips, six septic systems that also demonstrated an imminent threat to public health, six erosion control projects , one wetland restored, and one feedlot runoff control system.

Benton
Morrison
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 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
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
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
Itasca SWCD
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$134,810
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$129,111
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,300
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$133,914
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
BWSR
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,983,000
Fund Source

Phase X of the Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape ACUB Partnership will utilize permanent conservation easements (BWSR RIM) to acquire 1,421-acres of high quality habitat in order to accomplish: PERMANENT PROTECTION of habitat corridors and buffers around public lands, PRESERVE open space within the CRSL, and conservation enhancement and restoration PRACTICES to protect soil and water quality and habitat corridor connectivity.

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$138,794
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$234,300
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$133,432
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$149,137
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$21,500
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Area 2 - West Central Technical Service Area
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Benton
Big Stone
Chippewa
Douglas
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Morrison
Pope
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Recipient
Area 8 - North Central MN SWCDs JPB
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,500
Fund Source
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Wadena
Recipient
Morrison SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Morrison
Recipient
Itasca SWCD
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Fund Source
Itasca
Recipient
BWSR with Morrison County SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,200,000
Fund Source

This phase protected, under easement, 946 acres (130% of the goal of 720 acres)  of high quality habitat a for fish, game, and wildlife.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Morrison
St. Louis
Wadena
Recipient
BWSR
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,471,500
Fund Source

The Camp Ripley ACUB Phase VI project protected almost 1070 acres of high quality habitat along the Mississippi and Crow Wing Rivers and near the Nokasippi and Gull River WMAs through approximately 14 conservation easements.

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison
Recipient
Morrison County SWCD
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,133,000
Fund Source

Phase 11 of the Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape ACUB Partnership will utilize permanent conservation easements (BWSR RIM) to acquire 1,150-acres of high quality habitat in order to accomplish: PERMANENT PROTECTION of habitat corridors and buffers around public lands, PRESERVE open space within the CRSL, and conservation enhancement and restoration PRACTICES to protect soil and water quality and habitat corridor connectivity.

Crow Wing
Morrison
Recipient
BWSR and Morrison County SWCD
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,712,000
Fund Source

Phase VIII of the RIM Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape ACUB Partnership utilized permanent RIM conservation easements to acquire 1,755-acres of high quality habitat within the ACUB work area. We secured 7 easements including the two one contiguous block but done as two easements for legal reasons) Cushing Land Company easements that totaled 1,464 acres. In total one of the largest RIM easements ever acquired.

Cass
Crow Wing
Morrison