We can help you protect Anoka County’s natural resources! ACD offers many types of financial and technical assistance to landowners and project planners in Anoka County.

Cost share programs change over time and availability of funding may be subject to project type, location, and property ownership. Listed below are types of practices that ACD may be able to help you design and install on your property. Contact ACD to learn more about conserving natural resources in your own yard!

For financial assistance, please see:  ACD's Cost Share Policies and Application

ACD’s employees have expertise in a variety of areas and are available to provide assistance for projects that improve natural resource quality, quantity and distribution. Project guidance may include the following, and we will do our best to research other areas of interest or provide contact information to other experts to ensure people get the help they need. 

Project guidance may be provided in any or all of the following forms:

  • Site assessment - measuring site parameters, assessing the nature of the problem, and devising a solution.
  • Project design - developing a design for a solution to the problem either as a general sketch or a scale drawing with a list of materials and estimated cost.
  • Materials procurement - providing information on the correct materials to purchase for a project and vendors that sell them.
  • Installation management - overseeing the correct installation of a project including grading, placement of structures, erosion control and plant materials.
  • Monitoring - assisting with follow up inspections of a project to identify problems and create remedies for them.
  • Maintenance - providing guidance on routine maintenance of practices such as mowing, thinning, pruning, and weeding.

Anoka Conservation District employees have expertise in a variety of areas and are available to provide assistance for projects that improve natural resource quality, quantity and distribution. Categories of assistance are noted on the left navigation bar. We will do our best to research other areas of interest to residents or provide contact information to other expertise to ensure people get the help they need.

For information on a specific project type, please select it below.

Invasive Species, Pollinator Plantings, Native Prairies
Lakeshore Buffers and Stabilization
Abandoned Well Sealing Cost-Share Program
Cedar Tree Revetments are a riverbank stabilization method that uses Eastern red cedar trees anchored along an eroding stream bank. The trees serve as soft, natural armor and greatly slow the current along the eroding bank. This decreases erosion and allows silt and sand to be deposited. The deposited material forms a good bed in which the seeds of riverbank plants such as sedges can sprout and grow. By the time the revetment trees have decayed, the bank should be stabilized by the roots of new growth and accumulated sediment. Cedar tree are suitable for mild to moderate erosion. For vertical banks more than 5 ft tall or areas of high water velocity, revetment may be inadequate. Cedar Tree Revetment Flyer
There are many landowners within the Anoka County who are trying to do what they can to preserve our area's natural heritage. They are doing this through conservation easements and selling their property to land conservation organizations. Cost-share is offered to landowners having ecologically significant natural resources on their property as identified by the ACD in land cover analysis of Anoka County. ACD will also help landowners apply for land protection funding from existing programs including the MN DNR remediation Fund Grant Program, Metro Conservation Corridors, MN DNR Division of Wildlife acquisition funds, and Forest Legacy Program conservation easement program. ACD Cost Share Grants Anoka Cooperative Weed Management Area Invasive Species Cost Share Grant ACD Contact: C arrie Taylo r 763-434-2030 x19