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Recipient
Minnesota Geological Survey
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$615,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$615,000
Fund Source

This project will accelerate production of County Geologic Atlases (part A). An atlas is a set of geologic maps and associated databases for a county that facilitate informed management of natural resources, especially water and minerals.

Brown
Cass
Dodge
Hennepin
Isanti
Lake
Redwood
St. Louis
Wadena
Washington
Recipient
Arrowhead Library System
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$261,461
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$261,461

Minnesota’s 12 regional public library systems, which encompass 350 public libraries in all areas of the state, benefit from a portion of the Legacy Amendment’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Through State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, each regional public library system receives a formula-driven allocation from the annual $3 million Minnesota Regional Library Legacy Grant.

Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Recipient
Jessica R. Hirsch AKA Jess Hirsch
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Carlton
Carver
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Dakota
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Lake
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Nicollet
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Lynn E. Speaker-Epping AKA Lynn Speaker
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Chisago
Cook
Dakota
Hennepin
Lake
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Brian W. Stewart
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pipestone
Polk
Ramsey
Red Lake
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Sherburne
Sibley
Stevens
St. Louis
Swift
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Natalie C. Jennings AKA Natalie Jennings
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,200
Artist Initiative
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
CHOICE, Unlimited
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,300

Arts Learning

Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
CLIMB Theatre, Inc. AKA CLIMB Theatre
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,778

Arts Learning

Aitkin
Becker
Carlton
Clearwater
Grant
Lake
Meeker
Mille Lacs
St. Louis
Traverse
Wright
Recipient
Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,450

Arts Learning

Beltrami
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
The College of Saint Scholastica
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Recipient
The College of Saint Scholastica
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Arts Tour Minnesota
Carlton
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Community Celebration of Place
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$47,508
Arts Tour Minnesota
Aitkin
Becker
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clay
Cook
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Otter Tail
Pine
Polk
Sherburne
Stearns
Wadena
Recipient
Duluth Playhouse
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,318
Arts Access
Carlton
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Ely Artwalk
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,700
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Recipient
Ely Community Spring Musical
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,250
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Recipient
Ely Greenstone Public Art
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Recipient
Ironworld Development Corporation AKA Minnesota Discovery Center
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Itasca
Lake
Recipient
Chalk.a.Lot
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,995
Arts Project Grant
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
The Duluth Superior Film Festival
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Carlton
Koochiching
Aitkin
Itasca
Lake
Recipient
Jaques Art Center, Inc.
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800
Arts Project Grant
Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Carlton
Pine
Hennepin
St. Louis
Lake
Koochiching
Ramsey
Dakota
Sherburne
Mille Lacs
Kanabec
Recipient
Lyric Opera of the North
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
North Shore Players
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
Arts in Education Residency
Lake
Recipient
Ressl Dance!
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800
Arts Project Grant
St. Louis
Lake
Cook
Recipient
Sauk Rapids-Rice Community Education
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Arts Project Grant
Lake
Cook
St. Louis
Recipient
Sky Blue Jazz Ensemble
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,530
Arts Project Grant
Cook
Lake
Recipient
U of MN - Duluth NRRI
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$585,000

Large deposits of copper, nickel, cobalt, and other minerals in northeastern Minnesota could provide huge economic and employment benefits to the state while becoming an important source of important metals for the country. However, the mining required to extract them could have significant water quality impacts in a region that includes the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness and other environmentally sensitive watersheds.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Arrowhead Regional Development Commission
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,974
To hire qualified professionals to design and install historical markers pertaining to the mid-North Shore region of Minnesota.
Lake
Recipient
William M. Kelley High School
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,008
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,008

Publication, in book format, of a narrative history of a "company town," Silver Bay, Minnesota, based on interviews with longtime residents (interviews and transcriptions funded by a previous Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund grant) and on interviews previously collected by the Bay Area Historical Society.  

Lake
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$820,000
Fund Source

Seven conservation easements were completed by this program resulting in the protection of 911 acres of high quality wildlife habitat and 28,181 feet (approximately 5.38 miles) of critical shoreline along priority lakes and rivers of northeast Minnesota.  This project outcome exceeded by 211 acres that proposed for the grant.  Total leverage through donated easements by landowners is estimated at $948,500, all in excess of proposed.

St. Louis
Lake
Carlton
Recipient
Lake County Historical Society
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,650
To hire a contractor to repair four original windows in the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Depot, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Lake
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$336,000

Minnesota has 9.5 million acres of public forest lands that play an important role in sustaining Minnesota’s environment and economy. The policies and programs used by public timber sale programs can impact post-harvest ecological conditions and have pronounced effects on the composition, structure, and productivity of the forest in the future. Additionally, timber harvesting revenues play an important role in economic activity, employment, and tax revenue.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
U of MN - Duluth
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000

Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area, is amongst Minnesota’s greatest natural resources providing drinking water, shipping, recreation, and tourism. Recently the lake has been undergoing significant changes including increasing water temperatures, decreasing ice cover, increasing nutrient loads, decreasing biological productivity, increasing invasive species, and changes in species abundance and distribution. The reasons behind these changes and the interactions amongst them are not well understood.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Minnesota DNR and the Minnesota Forest Resources Council work with forest landowners, managers and loggers to implement a set of voluntary sustainable forest management guidelines that include water quality best management practices (BMPs) to ensure sustainable habitat, clean water, and productive forest soils, all contributing to healthy watersheds. This project will monitor the implementation of these forest management guidelines and BMPs on forested watersheds in MN.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,900
General Operating Support
St. Louis
Carlton
Lake
Recipient
RESPEC
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The goal of this project is to complete the calibration/validation process of Hydrologic Simulation FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models for the Lake of the Woods/Rainy River Basin.

Cook
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Roseau
St. Louis
Recipient
U of MN
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$262,000

Minnesota has 15.9 million acres of forest land managed by a variety of county, state and federal agencies, and private landowners for timber production, wildlife habitat, and ecological considerations. Forest managers rely on inventory data to make effective planning and management decisions. Because forests are continually changing through natural and human processes, forest inventory data is periodically updated. However, doing so is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor and, as a result, much of Minnesota’s forest inventory data is currently out of date.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Pine
Roseau
St. Louis
Wadena
Recipient
Area 3 - Technical Service Area
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

Demand for Engineering services in Northeast Minnesota's nine-county Area III Technical Service Area is exceeding the capacity to deliver the needed services. There are increased requests from Soil and Water Conservation Districts for engineering needed to design and install Best Management Practices in part due to requests related to Clean Water Fund projects. These funds will be used to hire an engineer, which will increase engineering capacity and result in the completion of at least five additional projects per year.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Kanabec
Lake
Mille Lacs
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Health
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$105,000
Fund Source

The Lake Superior Beach Monitoring and Notification Program exists to test recreational beach water and notify the public if bacteria levels become unsafe. This project will expand the Beach Program to include additional outreach efforts, sanitary surveys and testing of new technologies to improve the Beach Program. Monitoring results will be used to inform the public, find the sources of bacterial contamination and address polluted runoff from improper waste disposal.

Cook
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,235
Fund Source

This project, beginning in Spring of 2014 and lasting until December 2015, will collect water quality data for 16 sites (7 lakes and 4 stream sites) within the Rainy River - Headwaters Major Watershed as part of the 10-year cycle for monitoring Minnesota's waters. Due to the large number and geographic extent of monitoring sites Lake County Soil and Water Conservaion District (SWCD) has coordinated site selection with North St. Louis County Soil and Water Conservaion District (SWCD) and will monitor sites within the southwestern (Kawishiwi River) portion of the watershed.

Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Stephanie M. Ellison AKA Stephanie Mirocha
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,620
McKnight Individual Artist Grant
St. Louis
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Cook
Carlton
Aitkin