Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation

Completed Conservation Projects

 

 

Conservation Project

 

Year Completed

 

LLAWF      Role

 

County

 

Township

 

Acres

 

Shoreline

Feet

 

Estimated  Value at Sale

 

Management Type

 

1)  Lost Lake - peninnsula

 

1997

Purchaser

 

Cass

 

Woodrow

 

19

 

3,000 ft.

 

$1,111.11

 

AMA

 

2) Long Lake - Baird -   Harlow Wildlife Preserve

 

1998

 

Donee

 

Cass

 

Shingobee

 

19

 

300 ft.

 

$135,000

 

AMA

 

3) Ten Mile Lake  Kenfied  Bay - Anderson

 

1998

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Hiram

 

14

 

1,087 ft.

 

$170,000

 

Ten Mile Lake Association Holding

 

4) Woman Lake                      Broadwater Bay

 

1999

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Wabedo

 

2

 

750 ft.

 

$100,000

 

MN DNR State Administration

 

5) Woman Lake  

    Hunters Bay

 

1999

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Wabedo

 

10

 

3,540 ft.

 

$149,500

 

State School Trust

 

 

6) Benedict Lake

   

 

1999

 

Facilitator

 

Hubbard

 

Steamboat River

 

35

 

150 ft.

 

$75,000 

 

Private Owner

 

7) Little Boy Lake

    Camp Olson

 

1999

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Wabedo

 

195*

 

4,160 ft.

 

$242,500

conservation easement

 

Cass County Holding

 

8) Cooper Lake

   Camp Olson

 

 

2000

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Wabedo

 

20

 

4,000 ft.

 

$7,000 conservation easement

 

Cass County Holding

 

9) Birds Eye & Sand              Lakes

 

 

2000/2007

Facilitator 2000 for private purchase; Donee of 160 acres in 2006 from landowner

 

Itasca

 

Sand Lake

 

180

 

7,656 ft.

 

$347,500

 

 

AMA

 

 10) Leech Lake

      Cedar Springs

 

2000

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Pine Lake

 

146

 

6,600 ft.

 

$735,000

 

U.S. Forest Service Management

 

11) Mule Lake

     

 

2001

 

Donor/Partner

 

Cass

 

Woodrow/

Wabedo

 

362

 

15,400 ft.

 

 

$2.7 million

 

WMA

 

12) Longville - gift   (S)

 

2001

 

Donee

 

Cass

 

Kego

 

2

 

Wet lands

 

$2,000

 

Leech Lake Watershed Foundation holding

 

13) Blackwater Lake

 

2001

 

Purchaser/Partner

 

Cass

 

Woodrow

 

42

 

2,486 ft.

 

$173,000

 

Cass County holding

 

 

 

14) Ten Mile Lake -                 Kenfield Bay -Pierron

 

2001

 

Donee

 

Cass

 

Hiram

 

4

 

150 ft.

 

$75,000*

 

      AMA

 

 

15) Lower Trelipe Lake

 

2002

 

Facilitator

 

Cass

 

Inguadona

 

35

 

500 ft.

 

$50,000*

Cass County Holding

 

16) Deep Portage,                     Elbow & Rice                     Portage Lakes

 

2002

 

Donee

 

Cass

 

Ponto

 

203

 

2,000 ft.

 

$700,000

 

Leech Lake Watershed Foundation Holding

 

17) Mann Lake

      Jack & Betty Thomas

 

2002

 

Donee

 

Cass

 

Pine Lake

 

13.8

 

454 ft.

 

$311,000

 

AMA

 

18) Sorrells Family                   Conservation                      Easement

2002

 

Donee

 

Cass

 

Woodrow

 

46

 

1,000 ft.

 

$51,750

Leech Lake Watershed Foundation Holding

 

19) Leech Lake

     Five Mile Point    

 

2003

 

Partner

 

Cass

 

Gould