All Projects

35319 Results for
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

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Recipient
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results
The objective of this project was to accelerate Ducks Unlimited (DU) efforts to help improve and protect shallow lakes managed for waterfowl. To protect shallow lakes, DU worked with private shallow lake shoreline landowners to secure permanent conservation easements on managed shallow lakes prioritized by DU for their importance to waterfowl and threat of development. The goal was to permanently protect at least 200 shallow lake shoreland acres.

Statewide
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$420,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

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Pheasants Forever, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

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Recipient
MN DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results
This project focused on the acquisition of habitat linkages that provided environmental protection of the shoreline and riparian zone, exhibited a high risk of development, supplied angler access, and afforded management access necessary for implementing habitat improvement projects.

Project goals were to protect 120 acres (1.4 miles of lake and stream shoreline) with the help of partner and other state funding. Partner funding includes donations of land value and cash.

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Recipient
The Trust for Public Land
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results
The Minnesota Valley Trust acquired 78.5 acres of priority lands in Lincoln Township of Blue Earth County to expand the Lincoln Waterfowl Production Area for the Minnesota Valley Refuge and Wetland Management District, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Of the 78.5 acres, 21 acres were acquired with Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund; the other 56.5 acres were acquired with nonprofit / other, non-state funds.

Blue Earth
Recipient
MN DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results
This project focused on paying professional services related to the conveyance of habitat corridor lands to the DNR by HCP partners. Parcels acquired from HCP partners will be placed in public ownership and administered as State Wildlife Management Areas.

Project goals were to pay professional services as parcels are conveyed to DNR by nonprofit HCP partners. During this appropriation only Pheasants Forever (PF) projects were conveyed to DNR.

Statewide
Recipient
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$70,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

Recipient
MN Deer Hunters Association
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,000
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited & USDA's NRCS
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$267,500
Recipient
BWSR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Recipient
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
Recipient
MN DNR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Recipient
The Trust for Public Land
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$350,000
Recipient
MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Recipient
MN DNR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Recipient
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is working within the Leech Lake Reservation boundaries to address loss and degradation of aquatic habitat for wild rice and waterfowl. Efforts will include regulating water levels on shallow lakes by controlling beaver activity and conducting periodic water level draw-downs, reseeding of approximately 200 acres of wild rice, and implementing adaptive management based on analysis of wild rice productivity.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Itasca
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

An estimated 200 acres of lands acquired through this phase of the Habitat Corridors Partnership are expected to be transferred to the state for designation as Wildlife Management Areas (WMA). The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is using these funds to conduct habitat restoration on these new WMA lands, as well as develop the infrastructure necessary for public access to them.

Statewide
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is coordinating efforts to improve habitat for aquatic species and protect water quality on lakes, streams, and their surrounding sensitive shorelands. A total of up to 3.5 miles or 35 acres of water bodies in Kandiyohi, Otter Tail, Rice, or Stevens Counties are expected to benefit from restoration activities including installation of aeration systems, development of spawning areas, installation of native vegetation, and stabilization of stream banks.

Statewide
Recipient
Friends of the Detroit Lakes Wetland Management
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$37,000

Friends of the Detroit Lakes Wetland Management District is using these funds to restore approximately 50 acres of prairie pothole wetlands in Clay and Becker Counties. Efforts aim to create wildlife habitat for waterfowl and other species and reduce downstream flooding of the Red River Valley by increasing the capacity of the land to hold and store water from spring runoff and severe storms.

Becker
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000

With this appropriation, the Minnesota Land Trust plans to protect approximately 500 acres of critical shoreline habitat along Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, rivers, and streams by securing permanent conservation easements and dedicating funds for their perpetual monitoring, management, and enforcement. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Becker, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Otter Tail, Pope, and Wabasha counties.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cass
Clay
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Meeker
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Todd
Waseca
Wright
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000

This appropriation is enabling Ducks Unlimited to help state and federal wildlife conservation agencies protect and restore shallow lakes for waterfowl. Conservation easements will be acquired on approximately 150 acres of privately owned shoreland and up to 60 acres of lands previously converted for cropping will be restored back to wildlife habitat. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Beltrami, Douglas, Freeborn, Grant, Meeker, Pope, Stearns, Swift, and Wright counties.

Statewide
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$387,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$388,000

The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Ducks Unlimited are working together to provide technical assistance to landowners that that will result in the protection of approximately 2,500 acres of prairies and wetlands in southern and western Minnesota. As a result of this appropriation, an estimated $4 million of additional funding for conservation is anticipated to be provided in match by the federal Wetland Reserve Program.

Statewide
Recipient
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$217,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$217,000

There funds are enabling Pheasants Forever to acquire in fee title approximately 86 acres of habitat along the borders of existing Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) or Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA) in LeSueur, Lincoln, or Rice counties and convey the lands to a public agency for long term stewardship and protection. These strategic acquisitions will leverage and expand the existing habitat, water quality, and recreation benefits already provided by existing protected lands.

Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Rice
Swift
Todd
Waseca
Recipient
The Trust for Public Land
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$245,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$245,000

The Trust for Public Land is using this appropriation to acquire in fee title approximately 44 acres of high quality habitat and convey it the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for long-term stewardship and protection. Priority will be given to shoreland and other lands that provide natural buffers to water resources. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Hubbard, Kandiyohi, LeSueur, and Rice counties.

Statewide
Recipient
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000

The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust is using this appropriation to purchase a total of approximately 80 acres of high quality grasslands and wetlands in Blue Earth or Le Sueur County to be managed as a federal Waterfowl Production Area (WPA) in the Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District.

Blue Earth
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

An estimated 400 acres acquired by other Habitat Corridors Partnership (HCP) partners is expected to be transferred to the DNR for long-term management during this phase of the partnership. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is using these funds to cover professional services costs associated with these property transfers.

Statewide
Recipient
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,000

Pheasants Forever provides coordination, mapping, and data management for the Habitat Corridors Partnership. Funds are being used to coordinate the partnership, guide strategic outreach and implementation efforts, manage project data, and provide reporting and mapping of accomplishments.

Statewide
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

Duties assigned to the project coordinator under this work program and as outlined and approved by the Habitat Conservation Partnership were to:

Statewide
Recipient
US Fish and Wildlife Service
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$330,000
Recipient
MN DNR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$73,500
Recipient
Fond du Lac Reservation, Natural Resources Program
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,000
Recipient
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Division of Resource Management
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Recipient
MN DNR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Recipient
MN DNR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$200,000
Recipient
National Wild Turkey Federation
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Recipient
MN DNR
2009 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000