Minnesota’s Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council approves $160 million for projects

With a few clarifications and deletions from the list of projects – whose initial asking price tag hit around $403 million – the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council approved approximately $160 million for about 50 projects for fiscal year 2026.
“This is the greatest gift we ever gave ourselves, to be able to do this. Because a lot of states have things they’d like to do but they don’t have the money,” LSOHC Vice Chair Ron Schara said of this year’s available funding.

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