All Projects

144 Results for
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
Pheasants Forever
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,815,000
Fund Source

This program accelerated the permanent protection of 2,267 acres of wetlands (465 acres) and grasslands (1,802 acres) as Waterfowl Production Areas open to public hunting in Minnesota. Over the course of the appropriation, PF acquired 18 parcels for a total of 2,267 acres which exceeded our total acre goal of 2,250 acres by 17 acres. Breaking down acres by ecological section we exceeded our acre goal for both the metropolitan area by 61 acres and in the prairie area by 346 acres. We have exceeded anticipated match of $5,125,000 by $771,500.

Blue Earth
Clay
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Meeker
Murray
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Sibley
Wright
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
City of Milaca AKA Milaca Parks Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,920
Rec Fest 2012
Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,616

2012 3-D Concert Series

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Phase 2 Michael Richards Memorial Bronze Sculpture

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,990

2012 Community Collaboration Hot Metal Pour

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Recipient
Minnesota Discovery Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Aitkin
Recipient
Ann Bickle Heritage House
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,810
To replace the roof on the Ann Bickle House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and currently used as a women's center.
Pope
Recipient
Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,265
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Fund Source

This project will be a complete TMDL report for the Biota and Bacteria (E. coli) impairments for the Ann River Watershed. The water bodies associated with these impairments will then be removed from the MPCA’s impaired waters list, and implementation activities to restore the water bodies will begin.

Aitkin
Chisago
Isanti
Kanabec
Mille Lacs
Pine
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
Harp mentorship
Cass
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
Violin mentorship
Cass
Recipient
Ensemble 61
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,256
Arts Tour Minnesota
Douglas
Pope
Otter Tail
Recipient
Rolf C. Erdahl AKA Pages of Music with Rolf and Carrie
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,719
Arts Tour Minnesota
Todd
Morrison
Stearns
Benton
Sherburne
Wright
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Stevens
Goodhue
Recipient
Lisa M. Fuglie AKA Monroe Crossing
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Arts Tour Minnesota
Wabasha
Steele
Becker
Mower
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Pope
Itasca
St. Louis
Lyon
Nobles
Jackson
Crow Wing
Rice
Todd
Otter Tail
Recipient
Prudence J. Johnson AKA Prudence Johnson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,000
Arts Tour Minnesota
Beltrami
Wadena
Hennepin
Hubbard
Rock
Pope
Rice
Carver
Otter Tail
Goodhue
Crow Wing
Recipient
MacPhail Center for Music
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,228
Arts Learning
Chippewa
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Pope
Stearns
Swift
Recipient
Mixed Blood Theatre Company
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,035
Arts Tour Minnesota
Becker
Douglas
Lake of the Woods
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
St. Louis
Wright
Recipient
Pope County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500

To partner with local non-profits to bring arts and cultural heritage demonstrations to the Pope County Fair. Demonstrations will range from quilting and spinning to the fine arts, rosemaling, and lefse making.

Pope
Recipient
Bemidji Community Theater
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,796
Production of ôOliverö by the Bemidji Community Theater
Beltrami
Clearwater
Cass
Recipient
Saint James Home of Duluth, Inc. AKA Woodland Hills
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,025
Arts Learning
Aitkin
Benton
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Crow Wing
Freeborn
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Polk
Ramsey
Rice
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Wabasha
Recipient
Aitkin Community Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Prairie Fire Children's Theater residency
Aitkin
Recipient
Beltrami County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,400
John Berquist performances in Bemidji and Baudette
Beltrami
Hubbard
Cass
Clearwater
Recipient
Bemidji Community Arts Council AKA Bemidji Community Arts Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,322
2012 Spoken Word Workshop Series
Beltrami
Hubbard
Clearwater
Cass
Recipient
Bemidji Community Theater
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,526
Theater presentation of ôThe Magical Pied Piperö in Bemidji
Beltrami
Hubbard
Clearwater
Cass
Recipient
Mask and Rose Women's Theater Collective
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,160
The Legend of Paul Bunyan - the Musical
Beltrami
Cass
Hubbard
Clearwater
Recipient
Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,531
Art Leap 2012 in downtown Park Rapids
Hubbard
Clearwater
Becker
Wadena
Cass
Recipient
Jaques Art Center, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,600
Operating support for exhibits, programming, and workshops
Aitkin
Recipient
Bemidji Woodcarving Club
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,705
Scandanavian flat-plane style wood carving workshops
Beltrami
Hubbard
Clearwater
Cass
Recipient
Minnesota Folklore Theater
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,090
Theater Presentation of ôNarnia, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobeö
Hubbard
Beltrami
Cass
Recipient
Pope County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To enhance the free arts and cultural heritage performances on Pope County Fair's Free Stage by installing a permanent sound system and bring a Medicine Wagon Show to perform multiple shows each day of the fair. Additionally, to mount historical markers around the fair to explain the history of the buildings and fairgrounds.

Pope
Recipient
Mask and Rose Women's Theater Collective
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,041
ôPetite Rougueö performances in area schools and at Neilson Place
Beltrami
Cass
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500,000
Fund Source

Funds are to be used to protect, enhance and restore water quality in lakes, rivers and streams and to protect groundwater and drinking water. Activities include structural and vegetative practices to reduce runoff and retain water on the land, feedlot water quality projects, SSTS abatement grants for low income individuals, and stream bank, stream channel and shoreline protection projects. For the fiscal year 2012, BWSR awarded 13 local governments with funds to complete 143 projects. More information is available in the detail reports below.

Big Stone
Cass
Dodge
Douglas
Lincoln
Marshall
McLeod
Mille Lacs
Pennington
Pipestone
Rock
St. Louis
Stearns
Recipient
Cass County (Environmental Services Department)
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,696
Fund Source

This project will include lake and stream monitoring on 23 lakes and 4 streams found within the Leech Lake River and Pine River watersheds in Cass County. The project will be conducted in an effort to gain sufficient data on these data-deficient lake and stream sites within these watersheds. All of the proposed monitoring sites are target sites located in the targeted watersheds for 2012. Cass ESD is partnering with Hubbard SWCD, the Leech Lake Band of Objibwe, and RMB Environmental Laboratories to conduct the fieldwork for this project.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
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
City of Aitkin
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$82,000
Fund Source

Acquire approximately 50.4 acre expansion to existing 8.9-acre park along the Ripple River to be operated as a regional park.

Aitkin
Recipient
Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,269
Community Arts Schools and Conservatories
Itasca
Cass
Recipient
Headwaters School of Music and the Arts
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,897
Community Arts Schools and Conservatories
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Hubbard
Itasca
Polk
Recipient
Art Crawl Off 84
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,200
Community Arts Access Project
Cass
Recipient
Minnesota Folklore Theater
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Nunsense and On Golden Pond
Cass