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Contract Administration
Recipient: 
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$88,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$87,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

These funds are to the DNR to manage appropriations to be passed through to third party recipients. This project provides oversight of reimbursement for project deliverables and meets the requirements of the Department of Administration’s Grants Managemen

Statewide
Contract Administration
Recipient: 
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$88,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$87,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

These funds are to the DNR to manage appropriations to be passed through to third party recipients. This project provides oversight of reimbursement for project deliverables and meets the requirements of the Department of Administration’s Grants Managemen

Statewide
Contract Administration
Recipient: 
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$88,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$87,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

These funds are to the DNR to manage appropriations to be passed through to third party recipients. This project provides oversight of reimbursement for project deliverables and meets the requirements of the Department of Administration’s Grants Managemen

Coon Creek Watershed District Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy
Recipient: 
Coon Creek Watershed District
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$252,200
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will provide the MPCA, CCWD, and all other stakeholders the information and tools necessary to improve the water quality within Coon Creek Watershed District. The improvements will take place using targeted activities throughout the watershed to reduce the primary biological and chemical stressors.

Statewide
Coordination of Statewide Civil War Activities
A project of: Statewide History Programs
Recipient: 
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$107,579
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

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 a Civil War topic page, www.mnhs.org/civilwar, with links to videos, books, art, photos, artifacts, events and other resources related to the war; collaboration with community partners to commemorate the Battle of Antietam and the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 2012; A series of History Forums at the Minnesota History Center focused on different aspects of the war; a dozen short films that will spotlight Civil War milestones and Minnesotans" experiences on the homefront; a partnership with the Guthrie Theater to share insights about our Civil War collections with audiences of the theater's production of "Appomattox." Society staff will continue planning more initiatives with other organizations including the Minnesota Civil War Commemorative Task Force, the United States Postal Service and Civil War Roundtables.

Statewide
Coordination of Statewide Civil War Activities
A project of: Statewide History Programs
Recipient: 
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$107,579
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

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 a Civil War topic page, www.mnhs.org/civilwar, with links to videos, books, art, photos, artifacts, events and other resources related to the war; collaboration with community partners to commemorate the Battle of Antietam and the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 2012; A series of History Forums at the Minnesota History Center focused on different aspects of the war; a dozen short films that will spotlight Civil War milestones and Minnesotans" experiences on the homefront; a partnership with the Guthrie Theater to share insights about our Civil War collections with audiences of the theater's production of "Appomattox." Society staff will continue planning more initiatives with other organizations including the Minnesota Civil War Commemorative Task Force, the United States Postal Service and Civil War Roundtables.

Statewide
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Conservation
Recipient: 
Metropolitan Council/Environmental Financial Group Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$77,000
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

On behalf of the Metropolitan Council, Environmental Financial Group Inc. generated a matrix of water conservation programs with detailed information about the costs and benefits of the programs. Tools were also developed to allow users to calculate potential water savings, estimate program implementation costs, and test the effects of various water conservation programs and rate structures.

Statewide
County Geologic Atlases for Sustainable Water Management
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota - MN Geological Survey
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$600,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$600,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Geologic atlases provide information essential to sustainable management of ground water resources. They define aquifer boundaries and the connection of aquifers to the land surface and surface water resources.

Statewide
County Geologic Atlases for Sustainable Water Management
Recipient: 
University of Minnesota - MN Geological Survey
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$600,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$600,000
Source: 
Environment & Natural Resources Trust Fund

Geologic atlases provide information essential to sustainable management of ground water resources. They define aquifer boundaries and the connection of aquifers to the land surface and surface water resources.

Statewide
Creating Success for 21st-Century Learners
A project of: Statewide Historic Programs
Recipient: 
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$340,292
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
As teachers strive to reinvent their classrooms to meet the needs of this new generation, the Minnesota Historical Society is using ACHF funding to conduct research and to develop programs and materials that will support teachers' classroom needs and engage digital natives in the study of history.
Statewide
Creating Success for 21st-Century Learners
A project of: Statewide Historic Programs
Recipient: 
Minnesota Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$340,292
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
As teachers strive to reinvent their classrooms to meet the needs of this new generation, the Minnesota Historical Society is using ACHF funding to conduct research and to develop programs and materials that will support teachers' classroom needs and engage digital natives in the study of history.
Statewide
Creating Success for 21st-Century Learners
A project of: Statewide History Programs
Recipient: 
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$342,650
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Research shows that traditional teaching tools, such as textbooks and lectures, don't fully engage today's students who have grown up surrounded by technology and who use it in their daily lives. This biennium, an additional four Minnesota Historical Society historic sites are improving their service to "21st Century Learners" and their teachers and parents. In total, 14 sites and museums are revamping their field trip programs and developing online resources requested by teachers and parents in earlier research, so that 21st century learners can develop a stronger connection to the study of history.

Statewide
Creating Success for 21st-Century Learners
A project of: Statewide History Programs
Recipient: 
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$342,650
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

Research shows that traditional teaching tools, such as textbooks and lectures, don't fully engage today's students who have grown up surrounded by technology and who use it in their daily lives. This biennium, an additional four Minnesota Historical Society historic sites are improving their service to "21st Century Learners" and their teachers and parents. In total, 14 sites and museums are revamping their field trip programs and developing online resources requested by teachers and parents in earlier research, so that 21st century learners can develop a stronger connection to the study of history.

Creative Intersections
Recipient: 
Rosemount Area Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$7,300
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
To support innovative partnerships that integrate arts and culture into plans for community development and enrichment.
Cultural Resources Interpretive Plan for the Mississippi River Trail in Dakota County
A project of: Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program 2012
Recipient: 
Dakota County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$77,500
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
To acquire professional services to prepare an interpretive plan for public access to history and cultural heritage along 27 miles of the national Mississippi River Trail and the Mississippi River National River and Recreation Area
Dakota City Programming
Recipient: 
Dakota County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$12,000
Source: 
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund

To provide programming that tells the story of Dakota County's 160 years of settlement, Minnesota history and cultural traditions, through an entertaining tent show that combines story telling and original music. The show will be reminiscent of the 1900s era Chautauqua programs. It will be performed daily in the tent at Dakota City Heritage Village.

Dakota County Community Partners in Conservation
Recipient: 
Dakota County Soil and Water Conservation District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$50,000
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will provide cost share funding to community organizations and associations to construct medium-sized water quality conservation practices in Dakota County.

Dakota County Habitat Protection
Recipient: 
Dakota County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$1,000,000
Source: 
Outdoor Heritage Fund

This program will protect over 350 acres of high quality wildlife habitat including 1.7 miles of Cannon River shoreline, 2.0 miles of Chub Creek and .70 miles of shoreline along Marcott Lake in Dakota County. Permanent conservation easements from willing landowners will be acquired and landowners will be required to complete natural resource management plans.

Dakota County Riparian and Lakeshore Protection and Management , Phase 3
Recipient: 
Dakota County
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$480,000
Source: 
Outdoor Heritage Fund

This project will acquire 227 acres of conservation easements along the Mississippi, Cannon and Vermillion Rivers and restore and enhance 40 acres within associated habitat corridors.

Dakota County Riparian and Lakeshore Protection and Restoration
Recipient: 
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$2,097,000
Source: 
Outdoor Heritage Fund

This project initiates a comprehensive approach to protecting, restoring and enhancing wildlife habitat and water quality by working with willing landowners to establish permanent conservation easements totaling 620 acres along the Vermillion River and including North, Middle and South Creeks, the South Branch and their tributaries; the Cannon River and its primary tributaries within Dakota County

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DCHS Exhibit Guide Development & Production
A project of: Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program
Recipient: 
Dakota County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$6,600
To develop and implement visitor guides for four venues to learn about history in Dakota County
Statewide
Developing a DNA Marker System for Bacteria from Cattle, Swine and Poultry Manure
Recipient: 
Michael Sadowsky - University of Minnesota Department of Soil, Water and Climate, sadowsky@umn.edu (612) 624-2706
2007 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$240,000

In the first part of the study, researchers used sophisticated laboratory techniques (subtraction suppressive hybridization) to identify DNAs that are specific for E. coli originating from cows, pigs, and turkeys.They used different laboratory methods to identify fecal bacteria originating from humans and cows.

Developing New Nitrogen Recommendations and Understanding of Water Quality Implications under Irrigated Agriculture
Recipient: 
Dakota County Water Resources Department- Jill V. Trescott, (952) 891-7019
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$36,122
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$35,572
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will provide a better understanding of nitrogen fertilizer management on a local level and the associated groundwater quality impacts.

Goals:

Developing New Nitrogen Recommendations and Understanding of Water Quality Implications under Irrigated Agriculture
Recipient: 
Dakota County Water Resources Department- Jill V. Trescott, (952) 891-7019
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$36,122
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$35,572
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will provide a better understanding of nitrogen fertilizer management on a local level and the associated groundwater quality impacts.

Goals:

Developing New Nitrogen Recommendations and Understanding of Water Quality Implications under Irrigated Agriculture
Recipient: 
Dakota County Water Resources Department- Jill V. Trescott, (952) 891-7019
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$36,122
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$35,572
Source: 
Clean Water Fund

This project will provide a better understanding of nitrogen fertilizer management on a local level and the associated groundwater quality impacts.

Goals: