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130 Results for
Recipient
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Carver
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Great River Greening, MN Land Trust, Friends of Mississippi River, Trust for Public Land, MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000,000
Fund Source

With this final report, Metro Big Rivers Phase 2 is complete and significantly exceeded its original acreage targets of protecting, restoring and enhancing priority wildlife habitat within the three big rivers corridors in the Metropolitan Urbanizing Area. Specifically:
* Metro Big Rivers 2 planned to protect 733 acres, but actually protected 1,430 acres.
* Metro Big Rivers 2 planned to restore 15 acres and enhance 135 acres, but actually restored 15 acres and enhanced 178 acres.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
Washington
Recipient
MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust Inc; Friends of the Mississippi River, Great River Greening, MN Land Trust, Trust for Public Land
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000,000
Fund Source

The Metro Big Rivers (MBR) Partnership successfully completed its work under the Phase 6 / ML2015 OHF appropriation, protecting 485 acres across 5 projects (198% of proposed) and restoring and enhancing a total of 1,055 acres (185% of proposed). The Partnership expended 99% of the OHF funds granted awarded to it and leveraged the grant by 57% with nearly $1,141,000 in other funds.

Carver
Dakota
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Wright
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000,000
Fund Source

This project will establish a groundwater monitoring network in the 11 county metropolitan area. The network will provide information about aquifer characteristics and natural water trends by monitoring healthy aquifers (non-stressed systems). The project will also develop an automated system that captures groundwater level and water use data. This system will enhance evaluation of changes in aquifers that are stressed by pumping from existing wells.

Anoka
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Hennepin
Isanti
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Wright
Sherburne
Recipient
Clearwater County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405
To acquire 5 rolls of microfilmed newspapers for the county historical society's research library.
Clearwater
Recipient
Minnesota State Fair Foundation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,780
To conduct a general preservation assessment survey of the Minnesota State Fair archival materials and artifacts in the public history museum.
Ramsey
Recipient
Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State (Civil War Commemoration Task Force)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To enable public access through a website on the Minnesota Civil War Sesquicentennial.

Ramsey
Recipient
Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
The Minnesota Main Street’s statewide coordinating program provides participating local Main Street organizations with training, tools, information, and networking.
Blue Earth
Recipient
Minnesota Newspaper Foundation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000

To hire a qualified consultant to research the history of Minnesota newspapers, in preparation for a future exhibit.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Children's Museum
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$490,000

Arts and Cultural Heritage funding will allow us to pursue three major initiatives between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016: 1) Offer special exhibits and programs promoting creative and critical thinking in our main museum in St. Paul; 2) A Pop-up satellite Museum at the Mall of America featuring four changing exhibits to attract thousands of new visitors; and 3) Changing exhibits and access at Minnesota Children’s Museum-Rochester to ensure inclusive family experiences for the Rochester community. Recipient:

Hennepin
Olmsted
Ramsey
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500,000
Fund Source

Goals for Phase 2 of the MN Prairie Recovery Program were to: protect 1200 acres native prairie/savanna; restore 250 acres grassland; enhance 6000 acres grassland/savanna with fire, invasive species removal, and grazing; and continue a new prairie conservation model.

Becker
Big Stone
Chippewa
Clay
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Roseau
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wilkin
Recipient
MN Trout Unlimited
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,890,000
Fund Source

Minnesota Trout Unlimited volunteers, chapters and partners will enhance habitat for fish, game and wildlife in and along numerous coldwater streams on existing Aquatic Management Areas and other public lands around the state, while leveraging approximately $3 million for this.

Dakota
Fillmore
Houston
Hubbard
Lake
St. Louis
Wabasha
Winona
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$0
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350,000
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800,000
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,800,000
Fund Source

This project will create a high accuracy elevation dataset - critical for effectively planning and implementing water quality projects - for the state of Minnesota using LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) and geospatial mapping technologies. Although some areas of the state have been mapped previously, many counties remain unmapped or have insufficient or inadequate data. This multi-year project, to be completed in 2012, is a collaborative effort of Minnesota's Digital Elevation Committee and partners with county surveyors to ensure accuracy with ground-truthing.

Anoka
Benton
Carlton
Carver
Cook
Dakota
Goodhue
Hennepin
Isanti
Kanabec
Lake
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
St. Louis
Washington
Recipient
Minnesota Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,068
The Minnesota Historical Society and the Wilder Foundation worked with two new groups of existing and emerging community leaders in 2015 to enhance their ability to act on important community issues. During each six-month program, 245 participants explored neighborhood involvement and developed leadership skills to take effective community action.
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Luther Seminary Foundation
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,500
To contract with qualified professionals to prepare planning documents that will help preserve the Norway Lutheran Church (Muskego), listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
Hmong American Farmers Association
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To document in 10 oral history interviews the history of Hmong farmers in Minnesota.
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Landmarks Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$126,625
To repair and restore historic copper work in the roof of the Old Federal Courts Building, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Ramsey
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,032,000
Fund Source

This project contributed to the?goals?of?the MN Prairie Conservation Plan?by protecting 539 acres of?prairie/wetland/savanna habitat; restoring 151 acres prairie/grassland; and enhancing 24,604 acres grassland/savanna.?We will continue to implement subsequent Phases toward meeting the conservation goals described in the MN Prairie Conservation Plan.

Becker
Big Stone
Chippewa
Clay
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Mahnomen
Marshall
Norman
Pennington
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
Stearns
Swift
Recipient
Audubon MN and MLT
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,730,000
Fund Source

Protect and restore 590 acres of significant wildlife habitat through conservation easements and restoration projects on private lands within Important Bird Areas with an emphasis on those located in within priority areas identified in the Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan.

Becker
Douglas
Grant
Kittson
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Recipient
City of Rochester
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,280

To compile a comprehensive baseline inventory that can be integrated in planning.

Olmsted
Recipient
HAND in HAND Productions
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The Saint Paul Police Oral History Project (Phase Five) documents the history and culture of this unique 157 year-old metropolitan department and explore the important contributions of public service the men and women officers make to our Capital City of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Ramsey
Fund Source

Trail reconstruction and renewal

Le Sueur
Rice
Recipient
Sand Hill River Watershed District
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$989,900
Fund Source

This project restored fish passage from the Red River to 50 miles of quality upstream Lake Sturgeon and Walleye habitats in the Sand Hill River by modifying four structures and modifying the Sand Hill Lake Dam which currently block access. It also enhanced in stream habitat on the SH River.

Polk
Recipient
MN Administrators of Special Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

In 1984-87, MN became and remains one of just six states with mandated cross agency services for infants/toddlers with disabilities beginning at birth.

Ramsey
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,958,800
Fund Source

Ducks Unlimited successfully completed this Phase 4 our land acquisition/restoration program to protect shallow lakes and restore wetlands by purchasing and restoring 1,004 acres of land with drained wetlands and land on shallow lakes as additions to state Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) for the MNDNR throughout southern Minnesota.

Le Sueur
Martin
Nobles
Recipient
Washington County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$76,000
To produce a one-hour documentary on the life and significant contributions of Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Rosalie Wahl based on thorough and completed research.
Ramsey
Recipient
City of Shoreview
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$54,000
Ramsey
Recipient
U.S. Geological Survey
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$488,000
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Trout Unlimited, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
The Nature Conservancy
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,910,000
Fund Source

This project will protect and restore declining habitats and watersheds for important wildlife species in strategically targeted areas of biodiversity significance in Southeast Minnesota. The project will result in increased public access and expanded habitat complexes critical to the state.

Fillmore
Houston
Winona
Recipient
DNR
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$904,300
Fund Source

With these funds the DNR enhanced almost 3,100 acres on 140 different tracts within State Forests and Wildlife Management Area lands in southeastern Minnesota.  While a lot of forest management can be conducted with well-planned and carefully conducted timber harvests, these activities enhanced these forested habitats beyond standard harvest practices such as increasing hard mast production (acorns, hickory nuts, etc).  This will provide long-term benefits for a range of wildlife species and increased recreational opportunities for Minnesotans.

Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Maplewood Area Historical Society
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,999
To provide Maplewood Area Historical Society with professional continuing education through a national museum training program.
Ramsey
Washington
Recipient
MHIS, Inc
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,616
To fabricate and install a historical marker for the two infantry companies from Le Sueur, who participated in the defense of New Ulm, 1862.
Le Sueur
Recipient
Children's Discovery Museum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

The Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota will increase access and deepen engagement with their effectively proven School Service Program. The museum will take down the economic barriers and increase enrollment. This grant will fund more educators and facilitators, curriculum development, scholarship aid, transportation assistance and art/teaching supplies.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Morrison
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Hamline University - Center For Global Environmental Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,999
To conduct Phase II of research on the History of Environmental Education in Minnesota through oral history transcriptions.
Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota State University, Mankato
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To print and publish a book on the history of Mankato's Wagon Wheel Café and its patrons.
Blue Earth
Recipient
Martin County SWCD
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$495,000
Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Waseca
Watonwan
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,369
Fund Source

This project will increase awareness about outdoor recreation opportunities at Minnesota state parks and trails among underrepresented groups by creating handicap-accessible, touch-screen kiosks, with information in multiple languages, and placing the kiosks in high-traffic, family-oriented locations.

Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Historic Saint Paul
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,410
To adapt historical content from established paper-based tour brochures for the web and mobile applications for greater public access.
Ramsey