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Recipient
Minnesota State University, Mankato
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$69,438
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,324
Fund Source

This project goal is to conduct water chemistry monitoring at seventeen stream locations, to record and submit all data collected through this process, and to provide the information necessary for the calculation of water quality pollutant loads using the FLUX32 program.

Blue Earth
Faribault
Nicollet
Watonwan
Recipient
Milaca Area Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$675
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$865
To provide professional development for two staff members at the national American Association for State and Local History Conference in St. Paul, September 17-20, 2014.
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,833,000
Fund Source

This program will acquire and develop approximately 730, acres of new Wildlife Management Area (WMA) lands. New WMA acquisition acre targets by LSOHC Sections will be consistent with the recommendations of The Citizens Advisory Committee report of 2002? Wildlife Management Area Acquisition The Next 50 Years. Additionally, this program will protect 275 acres of native prairie as state Scientific & Natural Areas (SNAs) and perpetual Native Prairie Bank (NPB) easements.

Becker
Beltrami
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Polk
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Sherburne
Stearns
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Wilkin
Wilkin
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,791,000
Fund Source

This program will increase populations of a variety of game and non-game wildlife species by protecting and enhancing forest habitats on which wildlife depends. This program of on-the-ground forest conservation projects will amplify the wildlife value of forest communities on DNR administered forestlands. Our forest enhancement will treat 4,472 ac. These activities are not conducted as part of the DNR's commercial timber operations. Additionally, our program will acquire 404 acres of forestland that contributes to habitat complexes and other high priorities.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Benton
Cass
Chisago
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Olmsted
Pine
Rice
Roseau
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited and DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,505,000
Fund Source

This programmatic partnership between the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Ducks Unlimited (DU) will accelerate enhancement, restoration, and protection of shallow lakes and wetlands important to waterfowl. This partnership will assess, design, and implement shallow lake and wetland enhancement, restoration, and protection projects to address the most important wetland issues facing waterfowl and other wetland wildlife in Minnesota.

Anoka
Becker
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Freeborn
Grant
Isanti
Kittson
Le Sueur
Lyon
Marshall
Martin
Meeker
Murray
Nobles
Polk
Pope
Rice
Roseau
Stearns
Stevens
Stevens
Recipient
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,416,000
Fund Source

This program uses a multi-programmatic approach to achieve prioritized aquatic habitat protection, restoration, and enhancement for lakes, trout streams, and rivers across Minnesota. We propose to: i) protect 7.8 miles of shoreline on lakes, rivers and trout streams; ii) effect structural repairs to 2 lake outlet control structures that will integrate fish passage; iii) restore and enhance river and stream functions that will benefit over 50.5 river miles; and iv) enhance 1.4 miles of shoreline habitat on publicly-owned lakeshore.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Blue Earth
Carver
Cass
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Itasca
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lake
Le Sueur
Martin
Meeker
Morrison
Murray
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Ramsey
Redwood
Rice
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Wadena
Recipient
DNR
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$877,700
Fund Source

Many of Minnesota's wetlands have been lost and the remainder degraded.  Recent tiling and ditching have accelerated this situation.  Through this program, shallow lakes and wetlands were designed, constructed, and intensively managed to benefit wetland wildlife and Minnesota residents.  Habitat accomplishments from this proposal have enhanced 19,365 acres of wetlands and shallow lakes to benefit waterfowl and wetland wildlife.  Work was accomplish through constructed infrastructure, cattail control, and a significant prescribed wetland burn.

Aitkin
Anoka
Beltrami
Cass
Chippewa
Clearwater
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Isanti
Jackson
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Mahnomen
Marshall
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Otter Tail
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Roseau
St. Louis
Stearns
Wabasha
Washington
Wilkin
Wright
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,143,900
Fund Source

This phase of WMA acquisition protected 1802.55 acres of prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitat as State Wildlife Management Areas open to public hunting. With these 16 acquisition we have exceeded our planned acres of 1362 by more than 400 acres. Breaking down acres by ecological section we acquired 282 acres in the metro and 1520 acres in the prairie.  We have a balance of $52,798 of grant funds and $81,837.48 in program income that will be returned despite exceeding our acre goals.

Blue Earth
Jackson
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
Sibley
Waseca
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,837

Blue Earth County Historical Society added of 126 microfilm reels of the local newspapers: The Free Press, Lake Crystal Tribune, Lake Region Times, Maple River Messenger and The Land magazine.  These additions complete the collection with what is currently available through the Minnesota Historical Society's microfilm lab.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Todd County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385
To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Todd
Douglas
Morrison
Stearns
Recipient
City of Canby
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,385

To purchase a microfilm reader/printer to broaden public accessibility to microfilmed records.

Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Blue Earth County Historical Society
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To purchase two microfilm reader/printers to make microfilmed records more accessible to the public.
Statewide
Blue Earth
Recipient
Blue Earth County Drainage Authority
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$485,000

This project is a model for future drainage projects across the state and represents a fundamental shift in the way rural drainage systems interact with the landscape. This is a community-based water quality and treatment demonstration project in which landowners, local government, and state agencies have developed a watershed approach to improving water quality and replacing outdated drainage systems. The project will improve water quality, improve wildlife habitat, and develop a process for future projects by constructing water quality features within the 6,000 acre watershed.

Blue Earth
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
Anoka Conservation District, Isanti County, Great River Greening, Stearns County SWCD
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,047,100
Fund Source

The Anoka Sand Plain Partnership restored / enhanced 3,714 acres of priority prairie, savanna, forest, wetland, and shoreline habitat on public lands and waters within the Anoka Sand Plain EcoRegion within the Metropolitan Urbanizing, Forest-Prairie, and Northern Forest regions. Total R/E acreage achieved over the course of the appropriation is 126% of our stated acreage goals, and was accomplished through a robust partnership of four direct recipients improving a total of 16 priority sites including WMAs, state forest, national wildlife refuges, city and county lands. 

Anoka
Benton
Isanti
Morrison
Sherburne
Stearns
Recipient
Friends of the Orchestra
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Lyon
Lincoln
Murray
Pipestone
Yellow Medicine
Hennepin
Redwood
Recipient
Meander Art Crawl
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Chippewa
Big Stone
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Appleton 52 Wing Restoration Committee
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,390
Art Project
Swift
Stevens
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Recipient
Buffalo Ridge Chorale
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Lyon
Lincoln
Lac qui Parle
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
City of Cottonwood
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,400
Art Project
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Redwood
Murray
Lincoln
Renville
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Dakota Wicohan
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Art Project
Renville
Redwood
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Dawson-Boyd Arts Association
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Lac qui Parle
Chippewa
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Renville
Big Stone
Lyon
Lincoln
Recipient
Lakeview Public Schools
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,098
Art Project
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Marshall Area Stage Company
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700
Art Project
Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Meeker
Lincoln
Recipient
New London Music Group
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Art Project
Kandiyohi
Swift
Chippewa
Renville
McLeod
Meeker
Stearns
Benton
Big Stone
Lac qui Parle
Douglas
Hennepin
Dakota
Stevens
Lyon
Grant
Washington
Ramsey
Blue Earth
Recipient
Redwood County
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,992
Art Project
Redwood
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Swift
Kandiyohi
Recipient
Rhythm of the River
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Art Project
Jackson
Blue Earth
Martin
Cottonwood
Nobles
Pipestone
Recipient
Jaques Art Center, Inc.
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,936

Art Project Grant

Aitkin
Beltrami
Crow Wing
Mille Lacs
Wadena
Cass
Todd
St. Louis
Koochiching
Itasca
Carlton
Kanabec
Lake
Cook
Pine
Recipient
Lesley N. Arimah
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,500
Research for a project focusing on pre-Colonial Nigerian culture that will culminate in a series of readings from a creative work.
Blue Earth
Recipient
Leo R. Smith IV AKA Lyon Smith
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250
Artist Assistance
Anoka
Blue Earth
Carver
Chisago
Dakota
Dodge
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Houston
Lac qui Parle
Olmsted
St. Louis
Wabasha
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Delene R. Teller
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,250
Artist Assistance
Carlton
Carver
Chippewa
Dakota
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Hennepin
Itasca
Jackson
Koochiching
Lake
Lincoln
Lyon
Mower
Murray
Nobles
Pine
Pipestone
Rice
Rock
St. Louis
Scott
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Lynette R. Power
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Blue Earth
Carver
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Ramsey
Scott
Winona
Recipient
Julie A. Sirek
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Blue Earth
Clay
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Ramsey
Rice
St. Louis
Recipient
Samuel P. Spiczka AKA Sam Spiczka
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Benton
Morrison
Recipient
Megan E. Vossler
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Blue Earth
Hennepin
Recipient
Jennifer L. Ackerman AKA Jenn Ackerman
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Cook
Hennepin
Hubbard
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Hillary A. Berg
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Hennepin
Isanti
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Shirley A. Chouinard AKA Shirl Chouinard
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Hennepin
Isanti
Mille Lacs
Recipient
Constance J. Evingson AKA Connie Evingson
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,000
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Dakota
Hennepin
Mille Lacs
Ramsey
St. Louis
Washington