Current Land Protection Grant Programs
Grant-funded permanent land protection opportunities are available across much of the state. Individual programs are linked below. You may also complete a short landowner inquiry form to be connected to a program manager who can help you understand your options.
- Accelerating Habitat Conservation in Southwest Minnesota Program
- Protecting Minnesota’s Lakes of Outstanding Biological Significance
- Sauk River Watershed Protection Program
- North Shore Coldwater Fisheries Program
- Anoka Sand Plain Protection Program
- St. Croix Watershed Protection Program
- Twin Cities Region Land Protection Program
- Wetland Habitat Protection Program
- Blufflands Protection Program
Grant-Funded Permanent Conservation Easement
Could your property qualify?
Provide a few basic details about your land and connect with a program manager to find out if a conservation easement is a good fit.
Current Restoration Grant Programs
There are currently no open restoration grant opportunities; please contact us for more information on restoration.
Land Protection Stories From Across Minnesota
- Restoration Improves Forest Health, Mitigates Wildfire Risk in Northern Minnesota
The buzz of chainsaws is punctuated by a crack of wood. Though it may seem counterintuitive, even jarring, this is the sound of forest restoration—specifically, restoration of 115 acres in Lake County, Minnesota. The owners of the property, situated directly between Split Rock Lighthouse and Gooseberry Falls State Parks, acquired a conservation easement in 2019,… Read more: Restoration Improves Forest Health, Mitigates Wildfire Risk in Northern Minnesota - Partnership Protects Bad Axe Lake, Northern Minnesota Fisheries
SAINT PAUL, Minn, April 26, 2023 — Together, the Minnesota Land Trust and the Northern Lights Council of the Boy Scouts of America have permanently protected a portion of Boy Scout Camp Wilderness, including over 3,600 feet of natural shoreline on Bad Axe Lake and 219 acres of land and water near Park Rapids, Minnesota. … Read more: Partnership Protects Bad Axe Lake, Northern Minnesota Fisheries - A Century Old Farm’s Greatest Yield Yet
The property in the Minnesota Land Trust’s Rum and St. Croix River Conservation Priority area includes the forested northern shore of Rock Lake and is situated between a Walmart Supercenter, golf course, and two residential developments near the growing community of Pine City, Minnesota. The most obvious and, likely lucrative, opportunity for retired farmer… Read more: A Century Old Farm’s Greatest Yield Yet - Persistence Pays Off—Protecting Tennyson Lake in Isanti County, MN
The Barrett family, headed by landowners Dale and Betty Barrett, have demonstrated incredible persistence in their steady pursuit to permanently protect Tennyson Lake in Isanti County, Minnesota, in the Minnesota Land Trust’s Twin Cities Metro conservation priority region. To date, they’ve permanently protected 322 acres of land or water and almost two miles of shoreline… Read more: Persistence Pays Off—Protecting Tennyson Lake in Isanti County, MN - Protecting & Connecting the Southeast Blufflands Near Brownsville, MN
Located atop a beautiful and steep forested bluff overlooking Brownsville, MN, this recently protected property—a generous full donation of the conservation easement—is in the Minnesota Land Trust’s Southeast Blufflands priority conservation area. Though small in acreage, the quality of the protected property, due in part to the landowners’ diligent restoration efforts, has an outsized impact… Read more: Protecting & Connecting the Southeast Blufflands Near Brownsville, MN
