Twenty-seven projects are receiving funds
department of agriculture

For Immediate Release

Contact: Allen Sommerfeld
651-201-6185

[email protected]

July 20, 2022

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MDA Awards $120,000 to Combat Noxious Weeds

Twenty-seven projects are receiving funds

St. Paul, MN: 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.

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Organization

County

Award Amount

Project Title

Aitkin Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD)

Aitkin

$4,500

Expansion of noxious weed control at gravel pits to include surrounding properties/rights-of-way

Anoka County Parks

Anoka

$5,000

UTV tank sprayers for noxious and invasive plant control

Bellevue Township

Morrison

$5,000

Weed control

Bemidji Parks

Beltrami

$4,950

Lake boulevard

Birchdale Township

Stearns

$5,000

Weed spraying project

Burnhamville Township

Todd

$1,625

Spray ivy

Carlton SWCD

Carlton

$5,000

Cooperative Weed Management Area (CWMA), partners, and local citizens tackle invasives

Cedar Mills Township

Meeker

$5,000

2022 ditch spraying

Chisago SWCD

Chisago

$5,000

CWMA program enhancement for wild parsnip control

City of Fertile

Polk

$4,636

Fertile Sand Hills buckthorn control

City of Isle

Mille Lacs

$2,500

Noxious weed plants

City of New Brighton

Ramsey

$5,000

Creekview Park buckthorn removal

City of Winona

Winona

$5,000

Sugar Loaf Oriental bittersweet control

Kandiyohi SWCD

Kandiyohi

$5,000

Weed grant

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

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$5,000

Controlling Bakaan ingoji ga-ondaadag (non-local beings) on the Leech Lake Reservation

May Township

Cass

$5,000

Noxious weed removal 2022

Mille Lacs SWCD

Mille Lacs

$1,000

Targeted eradication and control 2022

Norman SWCD

Norman

$5,000

2022 noxious weed and invasive plant inventory, treatment, and education

Pennington SWCD

Pennington

$1,100

Tools for Pennington buckthorn removal

Sumner Township

Fillmore

$5,000

Project wipeout: ending the wild parsnip pandemic

Traverse County

Traverse

$3,600

Weed control

Traverse SWCD

Traverse

$4,280

Poison hemlock eradication project

Vadnais Lake Area Water Management Organization

Ramsey

$5,000

City hall wooded wetland restoration

Wabasha SWCD

Wabasha

$5,000

Management of common tansy and poison hemlock

West Otter Tail SWCD

Otter Tail

$5,000

Road right-of-way noxious weed control

Wiscoy Township

Winona

$5,000

Invasive species sprayer

Workman Township

Aitkin

$1,900

Noxious weed reduction

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