This program will complete the initial WMA site development on 1,500 acres of land acquired in the Accelerated Prairie Grassland WMA and Accelerated Wetland WMA Acquisition programs to meet standards for inclusion in the Outdoor Recreation System. This program will also accelerate the restoration, enhancement and management of at least 5,180 acres of native prairie vegetation on existing public lands.
This program will protect 800 acres of new wildlife habitat in the Prairie, Deciduous Transition, and Southeast Bluffland ecological sections of Minnesota through fee title acquisition. Title of all lands acquired will be held by the State and designated as Wildlife Management Area open to hunting, trapping, fishing and compatible outdoor recreation uses.
Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will cooperate to permanently restore and conserve approximately 800 acres of grassland and 400 acres of wetland as Waterfowl Production Areas 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.
This program will permanently protect approximately 1,246 acres (8.9-miles) of lake and warm water stream shoreline through fee title and permanent easement acquisition. Our program will also secure 54 Acres (3.1-miles) of permanent habitat management easements that include angler access on designated trout streams.
To prepare perform and record his original native flute and Celtic folk harp compositions into a CD to promote and generate interest in the music as well as live performances.
Teen members of the Boys and Girls Club of the Bemidji area will create 6 painted and batiked screens and 6 dyed screens for the teen center stage and participate in 12 weeks of theater arts classes.
To give a live theater experience for the Holocaust literature and English 11 classes by taking them to the Park Square Theater in Saint Paul for a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Produce plays based on essays from “I Am an Emotional Being” by Eve Ensler to be written by female students ages 11-18 and performed onstage and tour schools and Boys and Girls Clubs.
To present quality ethnic and cultural music featuring the Native American Flute and the Celtic Folk Harp to senior living centers public schools and underserved communities.
To present quality ethnic and cultural music featuring the Native American Flute and the Celtic Folk Harp to senior living centers public schools and underserved communities.
Produce “Flora and Fauna” a watercolor oil encaustic painting exhibit including educational component - highlighting interaction of different media in imaginative and realistic compositions.
To attend a fiber arts conference to learn new tapestry weaving skills and then use my experience to introduce tapestry as an art form to northern Minnesotans.
This monitoring project includes lake and stream monitoring and encompasses all of Cass County, and surrounding counties. The project will obtain water quality data for streams; in 2009, lakeshed assessments indicated that many surface waters throughout the county were data deficient. This project will address the need for sufficient data on a county-wide basis and fulfill the State’s intensive watershed monitoring program goals by obtaining water quality data at targeted lake and stream sites.
To apply for 501(c)3 designation purchase music folders music for special concert with the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra and compensation for the conductor accompanist and guest musicians.
Funds to hire staff to assist in the implementation of existing programs allowing the organization the opportunity to better serve its members area artists and the community-at-large.
To support rental of permanent costume storage and costume construction space as well as funds to expand our technical capabilities in order to add to the artistic quality of our productions.
The purpose of this project is reduce peak flows in the North Fork of the Crow River through culvert sizing. Culvert sizing will typically result in smaller culverts, which will provide short-term temporary storage within channels and on adjacent lands upstream from road crossings. In addition to reducing peak flow rates, flood damage and downstream erosion, increased sediment and nutrient removal through extended detention time is expected.
To produce a new exhibit on early county healthcare, the Beltrami County Historical Society (BCHS) drew from primary records in local and state repositories and used the funds for the research and development phase of the exhibit. The exhibit follows the path of early healthcare in Beltrami County including traditional healing, the history of North Country Hospital and Lake Julia Sanatorium to dentistry.
Our program/project will protect and maintain intact forest ecosystems through the use of perpetual conservation easements and other tools. This program/project will directly protect approximately 187, 277 acres of forest and wetlands with permanent conservation easements and 1,344 acres with fee acquisition.
