ST. PAUL, MINN. – The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has awarded $120,000 to combat noxious weeds across Minnesota. Twenty-seven projects are being funded though the 2022 Noxious Weed and Invasive Plant Grant.
The money, awarded to cities, counties, townships, conservation districts, and tribal nations, will be used to purchase equipment and supplies, conduct mapping and outreach activities, and hire private applicators to manage noxious weeds.
Noxious weeds are plants that have the potential or are known to be harmful to human or animal health, the environment, public roads, crops, livestock, or other property. There are currently 48 plants on Minnesota’s Noxious Weed List.
Grant projects were awarded up to $5,000 to be spent in one year to support local activity.
The MDA has awarded over $1 million since 2017 to local municipalities and tribal nations for projects that focus on noxious weeds throughout the state.
Visit the MDA website to learn more about the state’s Noxious Weed Program www.mda.state.mn.us/plants-insects/noxious-invasive-weed-program.
• Aitkin County – Aitkin Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), $4,500: Expansion of noxious weed control at gravel pits to include surrounding properties/rights-of-way
• Aitkin County – Aitkin Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD), $4,500: Expansion of noxious weed control at gravel pits to include surrounding properties/rights-of-way
• Aitkin County – Workman Township, $1,900: Noxious weed reduction
• Anoka County – Anoka County Parks, $5,000: UTV tank sprayers for noxious and invasive plant control
Beltrami County – Bemidji Parks, $4,950: Lake boulevard
• Carlton County – Carlton SWCD, $5,000: Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA), partners, and local citizens tackle invasives
• Cass County – May Township, $5,000: Noxious weed removal 2022
• Chisago County – Chisago SWCD, $5,000: CWMA program enhancement for wild parsnip control
• Fillmore County – Sumner Township, $5,000: Project wipeout: ending the wild parsnip pandemic
• Kandiyohi County – Kandiyohi SWCD, $5,000: Weed grant
• Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, $5,000: Controlling Bakaan ingoji ga-ondaadag (non-local beings) on the Leech Lake Reservation
• Meeker County – Cedar Mills Township, $5,000: 2022 ditch spraying
• Mille Lacs County – City of Isle, $2,500: Noxious weed plants
• Mille Lacs County – Mille Lacs SWCD, $1,000: Targeted eradication and control 2022
• Morrison County – Bellevue Township, $5,000: Weed control
• Norman County – Norman SWCD, $5,000: 2022 noxious weed and invasive plant inventory, treatment, and education
• Otter Tail County – West Otter Tail SWCD, $5,000: Road right-of-way noxious weed control
• Pennington County – Pennington SWCD, $1,100: Tools for Pennington buckthorn removal
• Polk County – City of Fertile, $4,636: Fertile Sand Hills buckthorn control
• Ramsey County – City of New Brighton, $5,000: Creekview Park buckthorn removal
• Ramsey County – Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Organization, $5,000: City hall wooded wetland restoration
• Stearns County – Birchdale Township, $5,000: Weed spraying project
• Todd County – Burnhamville Township, $1,625: Spray ivy
• Traverse County – Traverse County, $3,600: Weed control
• Traverse County – Traverse SWCD, $4,280: Poison hemlock eradication project
• Wabasha County – Wabasha SWCD, $5,000: Management of common tansy and poison hemlock
• Winona County – City of Winona, $5,000: Sugar Loaf Oriental bittersweet control
• Winona County – Wiscoy Township, $5,000: Invasive species sprayer
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