To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Minnesota Historical Society is creating a broad range of opportunities to help students, teachers and the general public learn more about the war and the role Minnesota played. Initiatives include:
The Minnesota Historical Society developed a communications strategy to raise awareness of the significance of Minnesota's role in the Civil War and also the Society's educational initiatives, exhibits and programs related to the war to ensure that students, teachers and the general public would use and benefit from these initiatives.
The overarching goals of MDA's research program are to identify underlying processes that affect water quality, to evaluate the effectiveness of agricultural Best Management Practices, and to develop technologies to target BMPs to critical areas of the landscape. Currently, there are eight on-going projects and thirteen completed projects.
Our program will restore and/or enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in six coldwater streams located in existing Aquatic Management Areas and one Minnesota State Park.
Minnesota Trout Unlimited will enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in coldwater streams, rivers and lakes located in existing Aquatic Management Areas and other public lands.
A vital part of the Minnesota Historical Society's mission is preserving and making available a wide range of artifacts and materials chronicling our state's history. ACHF support is allowing the Society to create a more comprehensive legacy for future generations through the acquisition of important Minnesota artwork, books and manuscripts
Lakeland Public Television develops, produces and distributes a 30-minute magazine-style program that showcases regional arts, history and cultural heritage events, people and places of significance. Common Ground airs Thursday nights during primetime and is re-broadcast overnights and weekends as well as during primetime on our L-Plus digital sub-channel.
Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (MASWCD)
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$1,500
Source:
Clean Water Fund
This project will provide Soil and Water Conservation Districts the opportunity to nominate an individual, business, company, municipality or organization for their concern, cooperation and/or implementation of conservation practices in a community environment.
This project will develop a surficial geology shapefile (map) for part of the State of Minnesota, by modifying and joining smaller existing, but separate, surficial geology maps. The resulting internally consistent geographic information system (GIS) layer will be used to support the hydrologic parameterization of Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) watershed models.
A project of: Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program 2012
Recipient:
City of Lanesboro
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$7,000
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
To hire qualified professionals to write a structural assessment of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church Hall, a contributing resource in the Lanesboro Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places and current home to the Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge
This program area accounts for all administration costs that support all projects DNR is engaged in to connect people to the outdoors, a key strategic objective of the Parks and Trails Legacy Fund.
This program area accounts for all administration costs that support all projects DNR is engaged in to connect people to the outdoors, a key strategic objective of the Parks and Trails Legacy Fund.
This new interdisciplinary curriculum will use digital photography to foster an interest in nature by Minnesota youth by providing 80 workshops for 1000 school teachers over two years.
The Division of Parks and Trails (as directed by Chapter 172, Art. 3, Sec. 2, Subd. 3(c)) utilizes Conservation Corps of Minnesota services for restoration, maintenance, and other activities that supplement the ability to reach Legacy Fund goals.
The Division of Parks and Trails (as directed by Chapter 172, Art. 3, Sec. 2, Subd. 3(c)) utilizes Conservation Corps of Minnesota services for restoration, maintenance, and other activities that supplement the ability to reach Legacy Fund goals.
The Division of Parks and Trails (as directed by Chapter 172, Art. 3, Sec. 2, Subd. 3(c)) utilizes Conservation Corps of Minnesota services for restoration, maintenance, and other activities that supplement the ability to reach Legacy Fund goals.
Accelerated implementation of Phase I Conservation Easement Stewardship Plan for existing easements through monitoring, Baseline data collection and report completion, corrective surveys, researching current fee ownership and enforcement protocol developm
Accelerated implementation of Phase I Conservation Easement Stewardship Plan for existing easements through monitoring, Baseline data collection and report completion, corrective surveys, researching current fee ownership and enforcement protocol developm
The Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program will be managed by the Department of Natural Resources to provide competitive matching grants to local, regional, state, and national non-profit organizations, including governments.
This project will develop an alternative framework to assess drainage benefits on public systems, shifting the paradigm from a production-based approach to one that encourages and rewards water conservation.
This project will develop an alternative framework to assess drainage benefits on public systems, shifting the paradigm from a production-based approach to one that encourages and rewards water conservation.
This project will provide notification of the potential for coal tar contamination, establish a storm water pond inventory schedule, and develop best management practices for treating and cleaning up contaminated sediments. The sampling design includes 15 stormwater ponds, 5 each from residential, commercial, and industrial land use areas.
USGS will complete the following activities in support of the SCSU project Assessing the Contribution of Microhabitat Differences on Biological Effects in Bluegill Sunfish in Sullivan Lake, MN-Continuation of MN Lakes Study 2010-2011.
