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Recipient
Minnesota Geological Survey
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$305,000
Fund Source

This project will accelerate production of County Geologic Atlases (part A). This is a set of geologic maps and associated databases for a county that facilitate informed management of natural resources, especially water and minerals.

Houston
Winona
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
Pheasants Forever with USFWS and Ducks Unlimited
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,505,000
Fund Source

Pheasants Forever (PF) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) will cooperate to permanently restore and protect approximately 700 acres as Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs) in western and southern Minnesota. All lands acquired through this grant proposal will be owned and managed by the Service as part of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Becker
Clay
Faribault
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Meeker
Murray
Norman
Norman
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
Dakota County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$157,238
Fund Source

Acquire 1-acre 1286 Carriage Hills Drive (Shadduck) for Lebanon Hills Regional Park

Dakota
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
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$600,000
Fund Source

A direct appropriation of $400,000 in FY 2010 and $600,000 in FY2011 for the Anoka Conservation District (ACD) is for the metropolitan landscape restoration program for water quality and improvement projects in the seven-county metro area.

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Great River Greening
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$747,000
Fund Source

This program will harness the expertise, resources, and connections of a broad community of committed conservation stakeholders to significantly elevate restoration and enhancement of oak savannas (Minnesota's most critically imperiled habitat), woodlands and forests on public lands across the region.

Anoka
Benton
Isanti
Isanti
Recipient
Arlington, City of
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$640,339
Fund Source

Construct treatment plant improvements

Sibley
Recipient
Harriet Morrow AKA Chantel SinGs
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,000
The project will include the completion of a full length studio album and an organized concert performance by the artists and other Minnesota performing artists.
Dakota
Recipient
Hastings Concert Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,400
Funding for four free music concerts as part of their summer concert series. The concerts will take place at the LeDuc Historic Estate in Hastings in August 2011.
Dakota
Recipient
Remembering With Dignity
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for Remembering with Dignity, a visual arts project involving artists with developmental disabilities and featuring studio sessions and field trips. The project will culminate in an exhibition at Newell Park in St. Paul in May 2012.
Dakota
Recipient
Friends of Lake Bronson State Park
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,050
Woodcarver's Festival.
Kittson
Recipient
C Productions
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,897
The Syringa Tree one-woman show.
Olmsted
Recipient
Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester AKA Choral Arts Ensemble
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
Choral Arts Ensemble partnering with two community groups, will provide 3 free public concerts, with an educational talk, to engage underserved members of the public in meaningful arts performances.
Olmsted
Recipient
CLIMB Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,948
Return to Honor, sensitizes communities to the challenges faced by military personnel returning from combat. The play will be performed throughout Minnesota nineteen times, hosted by our partner libraries.
Dakota
Recipient
Farmington Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,603
Focusing on a theme of Making Art Together Builds Community, all students at Farmington Elementary will work with one of four artists using the European and American folk song and dance, Ghaian drumming, West African dance, and puppetry.
Dakota
Recipient
International Friendship Through the Performing Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,500
IFTPA will collaborate with Sibley Elementary School in Northfield and the Northfield Community Chinese School to hire Chinese musician Gao Hong to do residencies at each school.
Dakota
Recipient
Rolf C. Erdahl AKA Pages of Music with Rolf and Carrie
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,823
The Vecchione/Erdahl Duo will tour with recitals of new music for oboe/bass duo to Owatonna, Grand Rapids, and Duluth; and with Pages of Music with Rolf and Carrie educational programs to 32 communities served by the Great River Regional Library system.
Dakota
Recipient
Caponi Art Park AKA Caponi Art Park and Learning Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,610
Caponi Art Park will increase access to the arts for underserved youth in Dakota County through a new outreach program of tours, activities and performances.
Dakota
Recipient
CLIMB Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$137,243
CLIMB writes/performs six short one-acts outdoors at 28 rural community events; townspeople attending Intergenerational Dialogues choose the plays' topics, discuss theater, and learn our process.
Dakota
Recipient
City of Rochester Music Department AKA Riverside Concerts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,000
Riverside Concerts, Southeastern Minnesota Youth Orchestra, and Honors Choir of Southeast Minnesota will bus 5,000 fourth and fifth graders from across southeastern Minnesota to educational youth concerts at the Mayo Civic Center on 4/21/2011; teachers will receive an advance study guide to prepare students for the concerts.
Olmsted
Recipient
Sing Out Loud AKA Bella Voce Young Women's Choir
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,300
This project expands arts opportunities for participation and enjoyment of Bella Voce Young Women's Choir by underserved populations based on financial, gender, and geographical barriers.
Olmsted
Recipient
Renville County West Area Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000
Upgrade Lighting System.
Renville
Recipient
Green Isle Community School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
They will have an Artist in Residency where students interview elders and work with local artists to create plays based on the elder’s lives.
Sibley
Recipient
Minnesota New Country School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
They will provide 8-10 arts and cultural field trips, to students for the current and upcoming school year.
Sibley
Recipient
Ability Building Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Empowering people with disabilities through art.
Olmsted
Recipient
Giants of the Earth Heritage Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Giants Folk and Fine Arts School.
Houston
Recipient
Herbert Hoover Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$905
Two artists residencies in grades 3-5.
Olmsted
Recipient
Northland Words AKA Words Players Theatre Troupe
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,759
Fund two productions and classes in 2011.
Olmsted
Recipient
Northland Words AKA Words Players Theatre Troupe
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$31,365
2011 production season.
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Art Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Adolescence Through the Lens.
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
ARTigras 2011.
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Civic Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Moving Forward, Giving Back.
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Dance Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Performance of The Wizard of Oz and other classics.
Olmsted
Recipient
City of Rochester Music Department AKA Riverside Concerts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,500
World Music concert series pilot project year 2.
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Repertory Theatre AKA The Rep
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Lighting the Rep stage.
Olmsted
Recipient
Rochester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Playing with the Pros: A Concerto Preparatory Experience, collaboration with Southeastern MN Suzuki Association.
Olmsted