Shoreland Habitat Restoration Grant Program

Program Summary: To expand the diversity and abundance of native aquatic and shoreland plants; improve and protect the quality of shoreline habitat; enhance and protect water quality; raise awareness of the value of native shoreline and aquatic vegetation. Shoreland Habitat Block Grants are to provide cost share funding to counties, cities, watershed districts, other local units of government, conservation groups and lake associations to conduct shoreline restoration projects with native plants, to improve fish and wildlife habitat.

Grant Details:  The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is making over $300,000 available for grant proposals, for restoring native shoreline vegetation across the state.  Individual grant requests can range from $10,000 - $75,000 and applications are due by September 17th, 2007.  For more information and an application, please see the links below.

• Application
• Application
• Instructions
• Example Budget Spreadsheet
• Example Budget Spreadsheet
• Financial Manual
• Financial Manual

New! Locations of Existing Shoreland Habitat Projects

Further Information:
John Hiebert, Shoreland Habitat Coordinator
Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road, Box 20
St. Paul, MN 55155
Phone: (651) 259-5212
E-mail: john.hiebert@state.mn.us