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Recipient
City of Coleraine
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,630
Itasca
Recipient
DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,130,000
Fund Source

This proposal will address a backlog of shallow lake and wetland habitat work that will otherwise go unfunded. These projects will address work called for in the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan, Long Range Duck Recovery Plan, and Shallow Lakes plan.

Aitkin
Anoka
Beltrami
Big Stone
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Freeborn
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pope
Roseau
Stearns
Swift
Todd
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,880,000
Fund Source

We propose restoration and enhancement of prairie and savanna on WMA’s, SNA’s, and Native Prairie Banks in Minnesota and restoration and enhancement of bluff prairies on State Forest Land in southeast Minnesota.

Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Children's Museum of Southern Minnesota
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

CMSM opened its new permanent site with increased capacity to serve as an informal learning center that playfully engages children, families, and school groups in interactive experiences with the art and cultural heritage of southern Minnesota. With its current appropriation, CMSM is poised to strengthen its core as an institution that promotes arts and cultural heritage learning through continued

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Chisago
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Pope
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Steele
Swift
Todd
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Le Sueur County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
Le Sueur
Recipient
Carleton College
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Duluth Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$147,000

Through the construction of new interactive exhibits and the creation of educational programming, the Duluth Children's Museum will highlight the community and culture of Duluth and the surrounding region. A climbable, playable model of Duluth's iconic canal lighthouses and an educational Ojibwe waaginogaan are among the planned new elements being added to the museum experience.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Pine
St. Louis
Recipient
Trust for Public Land; Great River Greening
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,345,000
Fund Source

The Cannon River Watershed Habitat Complex Phase VIII program will protect approximately 160 acres in fee, and restore and enhance approximately 188 acres of high priority wildlife habitat within the Cannon River Watershed, including wetlands, prairies, Big Woods forest, and river/shallow lake shoreline. Its goal is to reverse habitat loss, prevent degradation of water quality, improve watershed function, and provide public access.

Dakota
Goodhue
Le Sueur
Rice
Recipient
Trust for Public Land
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,380,000
Fund Source

Through fee-title acquisition, the Trust for Public Land permanently protected 242 acres (88% of our goal) in the Cannon River Watershed. This resulted in one new Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) and four additions to existing WMAs. Now publicly accessible, these protected areas include wetland, prairie, and "Big Woods" forest habitat. The permanent preservation of these places has reversed habitat loss, allowed for habitat restoration, and increased access to public lands for hunting, fishing, hiking, and other outdoor recreation opportunities.

Goodhue
Le Sueur
Rice
Recipient
Prairie Skyline Foundation, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$206,608
Becker
Beltrami
Clay
Clearwater
Hubbard
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Roseau
Recipient
Carleton College
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire qualified professionals to produce a manuscript on the history of Carleton College's Chapel and Chaplaincy.

Statewide
Rice
Recipient
Children's Discovery Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$142,500

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota aims to strengthen its highly successful School Service Program by retaining a Program development coordinator, changing core interactive exhibits and creating new curriculum for pre-school and K - 5 students in ten northern Minnesota counties.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,200

To gain intellectual and physical control of historic objects held in public trust.

Aitkin
Crow Wing
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Faribault
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,600
Rice
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,589,000
Fund Source

As of 11/1/2022, the CPL program has provided over 900 grants totaling $109 million to over 200 different grantee organizations, improving or protecting over 339,000 acres of habitat. Demand for CPL grants has continued to grow each year as new applicants hear about the program and successful grantees return. In ML 2018 there were 107 grants awarded- 18 metro grants, 20 traditional grants, and 69 Expedited Conservation Partners grants. Through these 107 grants, over 18,000 acres were restored, enhanced, or protected. Over $11M was awarded to organizations for projects.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Carlton
Carver
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Le Sueur
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Ramsey
Rice
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Todd
Washington
Winona
Wright
Recipient
DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,690,000
Fund Source

With the ML 2015 appropriation The Conservation Partners Legacy (CPL) Grant Program awarded 70 grants, 22 of these grants were the metropolitan area. Over 24,000 acres were enhanced, 2,500 acres were restored, and 386 acres protected through these 70 projects. Thirty-eight counties had CPL projects completed in them through 47 unique organizations. The average project for the ML 2015 grants was $96,000, with few exceptions most projects were completed on time and many were under budget.

Becker
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Dakota
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Itasca
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Martin
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Murray
Nobles
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Rock
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Stevens
Washington
Wilkin
Recipient
MN Land Trust
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,690,000
Fund Source

Through this grant, the Minnesota Land Trust protected 641 acres and 39,415 feet (7.46 miles) of critical shoreland and high-quality wildlife habitats in Minnesota’s Northeast region through permanent conservation easements. Landowners donated $2,100,500 in easement value through this grant, greatly leveraging by 131% the $1,609,000 in grant funding provided by the Outdoor Heritage Fund. The amount of shoreland protected exceeded that proposed for the grant by 299%.

Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,094,000
Fund Source

Phase 5 of the Minnesota Land Trust's Critical Shoreland Habitat Program protected approximately 3.75 miles of shoreland and 417 acres of associated high-quality habitat in Minnesota's Northeast region by securing five permanent conservation easements in strategic locations along priority lakes and rivers. Conservation easements secured under this program are perpetual and will prevent fragmentation and destruction of existing habitat.

Cass
Itasca
Lake
St. Louis
Recipient
City of Northfield (Northfield Hospital and Clinics)
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500
Statewide
Dakota
Rice
Scott
Goodhue
Recipient
Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,890

To support the development and restructuring of regional history groups.

Becker
Brown
Carlton
Clay
Cook
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
St. Louis
Sibley
Steele
Stevens
Traverse
Wabasha
Waseca
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Statewide
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,486
To hire a qualified museum consultant to develop a disaster plan for the Itasca County Historical Society.
Itasca
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,786,000
Fund Source

Acquire 470 acres of high priority habitat for designation as Wildlife Management Area (Prairie Planning Section) or Scientific and Natural Area (Prairie, and Northern Forest Planning Sections) emphasizing Prairie Conservation Plan implementation and coordination with partners. All lands will be open for public hunting and fishing (a limited number of SNA’s are proposed for limited hunting for instance archery only or hunting but no trapping). Accomplishments are based on $5,000 per acre average and should be considered a minimum estimate.

Becker
Brown
Cook
Cottonwood
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Murray
Norman
Renville
Rice
Stearns
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,540,000
Fund Source

We will use a programmatic approach to achieve prioritized aquatic habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement of lakes and streams across all the LSOHC planning regions of Minnesota.

Aitkin
Becker
Blue Earth
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lake
Le Sueur
Meeker
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Pope
Redwood
Scott
St. Louis
Wabasha
Winona
Wright
Recipient
DNR
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,007,000
Fund Source

We restored and enhanced a total of 15,577 grassland acres with 239 projects on Wildlife Management Areas, Scientific and Natural Areas, and Native Prairie Bank easements.

Aitkin
Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Houston
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Scott
Sibley
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Friends of the Minnesota Valley
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Continue and expand a River Watch program on the Minnesota River engaging teams of high school students in water quality monitoring and reporting the data to the MNPCA

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Dakota
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Northfield Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Rice
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
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,808,000
Fund Source

Minnesota’s use of groundwater has increased over the last two decades. An increasing reliance on groundwater may not be a sustainable path for continued economic growth and development. The DNR is establishing three pilot groundwater management areas (GWMA) to help improve groundwater appropriation decisions and help groundwater users better understand and plan for future groundwater needs associated with economic development.

Clearwater
Douglas
Meeker
Swift
Wadena
Anoka
Becker
Hubbard
Pope
Ramsey
Stearns
Washington
Recipient
Judy Garland Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,330

To hire a qualified historian to conduct primary source research on the history of the Gumm and Milne families in Minnesota.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Carlton
Hennepin
Itasca
Ramsey
St. Louis
Recipient
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$61,000
Beltrami
Cass
Itasca
Recipient
City of Appleton
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,200

To strengthen a large partnership, including American Indian partners, as they improve and make available more historic information about the Minnesota River Valley.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Norman
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Swift
Traverse
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Independent School District #659
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To hire a qualified professional to complete a manuscript on the history of the Northfield public schools.
Dakota
Goodhue
Rice
Recipient
Itasca County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,600
Itasca
Recipient
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$800,000
Becker
Blue Earth
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Olmsted
Ramsey
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$28,130
Clearwater
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,740,000
Fund Source

This Phase 6 request for Ducks Unlimited’s Living Lakes program will enhance 1,000 acres of shallow lakes and restore 50 acres of small wetlands by engineering and installing water control structures for Minnesota DNR and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on public lands and wetlands under easement. Structures will be used by DNR and Service partners to restore wetland hydrology and actively manage shallow lake water levels to enhance their ecology for ducks, other birds, and hunters in the Prairie Region of Minnesota.

Becker
Big Stone
Cottonwood
Douglas
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
Swift
Watonwan
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Carver
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Minnesota YMCA Youth in Government Appropriation
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,920
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$29,100

Minnesota Youth in Government (YIG) is a youth-led experience that engages middle and high school youth in democratic governing leadership. Students learn about government process and gain an understanding of local, state, national and international concerns. They research and debate, participate in model Assemblies, United Nations, Youth Conferences on National Affairs, retreats and trainings, and National Judicial Competition, and gain an appreciation of diverse viewpoints in respectful ways.

Benton
Carver
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Faribault
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Itasca
Le Sueur
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Winona

We Are Water MN is a traveling exhibition and community engagement initiative that emerged from the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street project. Continued by MHC and several state partners, six greater Minnesota communities (Spicer, St. Peter, Red Wing, Sandstone, Lanesboro, and Detroit Lakes) hosted the exhibit in 2016-2017, and eight communities hosted the exhibit in 2018-2019 (Saint Paul, Bemidji, Crookston, Cloquet, Austin, Northfield, Grand Rapids, and Onamia).

Beltrami
Carlton
Dakota
Itasca
Mille Lacs
Mower
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Statewide
Recipient
Trust for Public Land and MN Land Trust
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,813,500
Fund Source

Through the ML2015 Mississippi Headwaters Habitat Partnership appropriation, we permanently protected 1,923 acres of wildlife habitat in the quickly developing Mississippi Headwaters area. These accomplishments exceed the appropriation goal by 209%. Utilizing both fee-title acquisition and conservation easements, the partnership protected 10 projects, totaling over 11 miles of shoreline along the Mississippi River, its tributaries and nearby lakes.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Wadena