Shoreland Habitat and Water Restoration
Minnesota Waters' Lake and Stream Conservation Partnership Grant Program has been funded for a second year with support from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Michelob Golden Draft Light.
The 2008-09 application cycle is now OPEN. Applications must be postmarked no later than September 26, 2008.
The grant program provides funding assistance for innovative lake and river groups across the state carrying out shoreland habitat improvement and restoration projects, and/or lake and river inventorying and assessment projects to guide water resource improvement, restoration and management.
The Conservation Partnership program aims to further opportunities for Minnesota's most effective local water resource mangers-citizens working together to protect Minnesota's lakes and streams.
The grants are open to all Minnesota Waters members and affiliates. Seven $5,000.00 grants will be awarded. Funded projects will be short-term (12 months) in duration to demonstrate quick, tangible results.
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We look forward to working with these groups and the upcoming 2008 applicants on their exciting locally-led lake and stream protection projects.
The following organizations were selected for Conservation Partnership Awards and project implementation in 2007:
- Briggs Lake Chain Association (Sherburne County), Restoration and Education Action: increasing the number of lakeshore restoration and other conservation projects on the chain of lakes, including an education component and a "coupon process" allowing information providers to assist their customers with funding and technical assistance for conservation projects.
- City of Birchwood Village (Washington County), White Bear Lake Stormwater Treatment: includes the design and reconstruction of the parking lot to improve the treatment of stormwater runoff through porous pavement, prior to discharge into White Bear Lake.
- Friends of the Minnesota Valley (Hennepin County), New Auburn Stormwater Rain Gardens: in partnership with Sibley County and the City of New Auburn, the project will collect the City's stormwater in rain gardens before draining into High Island Lake.
- Geneva Lake Association (Douglas County), Lake Geneva Rain Gardens: improve infiltration and reduce the volume of water that reaches the lake through a washout gully by providing financial and technical rain garden development assistance to homeowners in the critical lake watershed.
- Middle Fork Crow Watershed District (Kandiyohi County), Rain Garden Education and Implementation: educational workshops for landowners to learn how to design and install their own rain garden, focusing on implementing rain gardens with workshop participants.
- Spirit Lake Association (Wadena County ), City of Menagha Stormwater Management Showcase: in partnership with the Laestadian Church, the Association is developing effective stormwater practice designs for implementation at the new Church building site and as a community showcase example for stormwater management around Spirit Lake.
- Stearns Soil and Water Conservation District, Shoreland Restoration Projects: restore shoreland properties through removing structural practices and/or non native vegetation, and replacing with native vegetation.
- Thirty Lakes Watershed District (Crow Wing County), Biological Monitoring and Wetland Health Evaluation: track the health of a biological system (macroinvertebrates), measuring and evaluating the consequences of human activities and pollution on those systems.
We look forward to working with these groups and the upcoming 2008 applicants on their exciting locally-led lake and stream protection projects.
