Lawns to Legumes: Your Yard Can BEE the Change
The Lawns to Legumes program offers a combination of workshops, coaching, planting guides and cost-share funding (individual support grants) for installing pollinator-friendly native plantings in residential lawns. The program also includes Pollinator Pathways grants, which are pollinator programs run by local governments and nonprofit organizations with support from BWSR, and a public education campaign to raise awareness about creating pollinator habitat. BWSR is partnering with Metro Blooms and Blue Thumb – Planting for Clean Water to administer the program. Find details on Individual Support Grants, Pollinator Pathways, public outreach and more on this web page.
Grants Quarterly: 2025 Year End Reporting
Inside this Issue:
Important Upcoming Dates
Annual Reporting Feb. 1 Deadline
Tell Your Story! Grant Reporting for Clean Water Fund Grants
PTMApp Updates for Annual Reporting
BMP Effects Estimator Tool (BEET) Update from MPCA
Forestry Estimator for Runoff and Nutrients (FERN)
Returning Funds
Tip of the Quarter
Managing Contacts in eLINK
Reporting Profile: CWF Soil Health
Grant Description
This competitive CWF grant provides funding for farmers [via local government units] who own or rent land to enhance the adoption of cover crops and other soil health practices in areas where there are direct benefits to public water supplies.
Reporting Profile: One Watershed One Plan Planning Grant
Grant Description
Field Applications to Fire Dependent Forest Ecosystems
This workshop will address silvicultural strategies for fire dependent systems using the Minnesota DNR's silvicultural guidance as well as on-the-ground insights from local foresters. Throughout the day we'll talk through management strategies at all stages of stand development in these systems as well as logistics associated with implementing, or mimicking, prescribed fire.
Skill
Forest Ecology and Management
Format
In Person
Source
SFEC
Date
Time
9:30-3:30
Training Type
Upcoming Training
Location
Cloquet Forestry Center,
United States
Registration Link
Training Date
Northern hardwoods silviculture: What's next after creating gaps?
This workshop will feature field sites and discussions centered around uneven aged silviculture in northern hardwoods. Throughout the day we'll unpack how foresters can manage for complexity while incorporating operability and marketability considerations in these stands.
Learning objectives:
- Attendees have a clear understanding of the types of queues or metrics within the stand that inform the timing and extent of treatments in uneven aged northern hardwoods stands
- Attendees are able to distinguish how these interventions may vary based on stand composition/NPC
Skill
Forest Ecology and Management
Format
In Person
Source
SFEC
Date
Time
9:00-3:00
Training Type
Upcoming Training
Location
Aitkin,
United States
Registration Link
Training Date