Heritage Enhancement and Turkey Stamp Habitat Grants
Information on the 2010 HE and Turkey Stamp Habitat Grants is posted below. Applications for both programs are due February 12, 2010.
Program Purpose:
Heritage Enhancement Grants
To encourage local outdoors clubs to complete wildlife habitat projects on State Wildlife Management Areas or other lands under control of the Section of Wildlife.
Turkey Stamp Habitat Grants
To provide competitive grants to local outdoors clubs for projects that develop, restore and maintain suitable habitat for wild turkeys on public or private lands.
Eligible Projects: "On the ground" manipulation of landscapes to improve existing wildlife habitat or develop new habitat including:
- Forest Opening Management
- Forest Stand Burns
- Forest Stand Improvement
- Hunter Walking Trails
- Openland/Brushland Burns
- Openland/Brushland Management
- Prairie/Grassland Burning
- Prairie/Grassland Management
- Wetland Enhancement
- Wetland Habitat Maintenance
- Wetland Impoundment Development
- Wetland Restoration
- Wetland Water Controls
- Woody Cover Development
Examples of Habitat Management Activities 
Who may apply: State- or nation-wide wildlife habitat conservation organizations that have two or more local or regional chapters, or local, nonprofit outdoor recreation oriented clubs that are unaffiliated with state or national organizations and that list wildlife habitat conservation as a primary focus of their organization's by-laws.
Level of Assistance: Up to 100% of total eligible costs on a services rendered basis.
General Information: Grant payment is made on a services rendered basis, with no matching funds required. Applications must be received by February 12, 2010. All work must be completed by June 30, 2012.
How to apply: View or download grant information and application:
- Application FY 10
- Administrative Requirements
- HE and Turkey Stamp Habitat Grants RFP - FY 10
- Grant Insurance Requirements 2010
Please submit all applications as attachments to an email to:
HEGrants.dnr@state.mn.us
Report forms:
Information for grantees:
- Financial Review of Nongovernmental Organizations
- Payment Manual for Heritage Enhancement Grants
- Heritage Enhancement Grants - Payment Request Form
- Invasive Species Operational Order
- Pesticides and Pest Control Operational Order
- Division of Fish & Wildlife Pesticide Guidelines
- Banned pesticides
- Prescribed Burn Web Page
- Prescribed Burn Requirements
For hard copies or more information contact:
Leslie Tannahill
Grants Specialist
Division of Wildlife
Box 20, 500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155-4007
651-259-5242 (phone)
651-297-4961 (fax)
leslie.tannahill@state.mn.us
Related DNR Programs:
- Deer Management Program
- Lessard-Sams Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program
- HE/CPL Grant Program Comparison
Other Related Programs: None
