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Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500,000
Fund Source

We protected 22.3 miles of trout streams and 1.3 miles of lakeshore via easements (585 acres in total), and 7.4 miles (504 acres) of lakeshore through fee-title purchase. We enhanced shoreline habitat on 524 acres of riparian land, and instream habitat on 3.1 miles of trout streams and 0.5 miles of warmwater rivers.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Blue Earth
Cass
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Houston
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lake
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Redwood
Rice
Scott
St. Louis
Swift
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,652,000
Fund Source

This appropriation funded 283 projects totaling 21,953 acres. The two largest types of enhancement were 112 woody removal projects totaling 10,160 acres and 134 prescribed burns totaling 10,082 acres. Additionally, we seeded 30 sites totaling 1386 acres, put in infrastructure for conservation grazing of 236 acres on 3 sites, conducted 3 oak savanna enhancements totaling 42 acres, and treated 47 acres of invasive species on 2 sites.

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$826,000
Fund Source

This program of on-the-ground conservation projects increased the wildlife and ecological values of forest communities on Minnesota's public forestlands. Restoration and enhancement projects in this program enhanced more than 10,000 acres of forest.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Roseau
St. Louis
Stearns
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Heritage Group North, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To enhance an existing walking tour with 14 kiosks broadening public access to Pine River's history.
Cass
Recipient
Lanesboro Arts Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,075

To survey the exterior of the building, make historically sensitive recommendations, and create construction-ready documents for needed improvements that will enhance the exterior of the historic building without negatively impacting the historic structure.

Fillmore
Recipient
Cass County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,516
To provide better public access to 1,012 black and white negatives documenting Cass County history through a digitization project
Cass
Recipient
National Eagle Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Rice
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,000

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is working within the Leech Lake Reservation boundaries to address loss and degradation of aquatic habitat for wild rice and waterfowl. Efforts will include regulating water levels on shallow lakes by controlling beaver activity and conducting periodic water level draw-downs, reseeding of approximately 200 acres of wild rice, and implementing adaptive management based on analysis of wild rice productivity.

Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Itasca
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,000

With this appropriation, the Minnesota Land Trust plans to protect approximately 500 acres of critical shoreline habitat along Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, rivers, and streams by securing permanent conservation easements and dedicating funds for their perpetual monitoring, management, and enforcement. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Becker, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Otter Tail, Pope, and Wabasha counties.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Cass
Clay
Douglas
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Meeker
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Todd
Waseca
Wright
Recipient
Heritage Group North, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To digitize the contents of the John M. Rohr Film Collection, 16mm film shot in Pine River MN from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Cass
Recipient
Lanesboro Arts Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

To hire a qualified and experienced HVAC engineer to evaluate current system preparatory to better control of the Lanesboro Art Center.

Fillmore
Recipient
Freeborn County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,830

To purchase 81 rolls of microfilmed newspapers from bordering communities that include Freeborn County history.

Freeborn
Recipient
Fillmore County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

To make accessible primary records through a new microfilm reader/printer.

Fillmore
Recipient
Preston Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,103
To contract with qualified professionals to prepare construction documents for the reconstruction of missing historic features on the Milwaukee Elevator, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and used as a trailhead facility.
Fillmore
Recipient
Rushford-Peterson Schools
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,995

To prepare a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Rushford Ementary and High School.

Fillmore
Recipient
Cass County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$604,000
Fund Source

Project has protected forest wildlife habitat in central Minnesota through fee title acquisition of key forest tracts. Title of lands acquired will be held by Cass County in fee.

Cass
Recipient
Leech Lake Area Watershed Foundation, MN Land Trust and DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,098,000
Fund Source

Landowner-donated conservation easements in Aitkin, Cass, and Crow Wing counties permanently conserved 260 acres and 3.6 miles of critical shorelands for the protection and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and continued public recreational enjoyment of these aquatic resources.

Aitkin
Cass
Crow Wing
Recipient
Shell Rock River Watershed District
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,577,000
Fund Source

The SRRWD has successfully acquired fee title to 257 acres of land that encompasses the headwaters of the Shell Rock River located at the Albert Lea Lake outlet. This 257 acre parcel will now be a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Aquatic Management Area (AMA) guided by an Aquatic Management Plan.

Freeborn
Recipient
Rushford Area Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,487
To install a security system for a collection that documents history in the Rushford area.
Fillmore
Recipient
DNR, Ducks Unlimited and BWSR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,891,000
Fund Source

This pilot program protected 1,210 acres of wild rice lake shoreland habitat in the Northern Forest Section by securing 14 permanent RIM conservation easements and four fee-title acquisitions, surpassing our goal of 700 acres, and doing so $250,202 under budget.

Aitkin
Carlton
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
St. Louis
Wadena
Recipient
Shingobee Township
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$310,000
Fund Source

to construct phase 4 of the Shingobee Connection, which is a bike/pedestrian bridge across Pumphouse Bay of Leech Lake adjacent to the existing road bridge

Cass
Recipient
Trout Unlimited, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$125,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Spring Valley Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,800
To replace the roof of the Methodist Episcopal Church, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and currently used as the Spring Valley History Museum.
Fillmore
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,205,000
Fund Source

Priority lands will be acquired and developed as State Forests to protect forests, habitat and provide public hunting, trapping and compatible outdoor uses.

Fillmore
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Olmsted
Wabasha
Winona