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Recipient
Freeborn SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$370,312
Fund Source

This project will decrease peak flows and associated water quality issues such as sediment and phosphorus on County Ditch 68, Mud Lake, and Fountain Lake. Practices include a 40-acre storage and treatment wetland, two cropped and altered wetland restorations of an acre each, converting 32 acres of cropland to perennial cover, and two grade stabilization structures.

Freeborn
Recipient
Area 6 - South Central Technical Service Area
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
McLeod
Nicollet
Renville
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Area 7 - Southeast SWCD Technical Support
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$240,000
Fund Source
Dodge
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
Clearwater SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$118,200
Fund Source
Clearwater
Recipient
Stevens SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$114,400
Fund Source
Stevens
Recipient
Freeborn SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000
Fund Source
Freeborn
Recipient
Freeborn SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Freeborn
Recipient
Lincoln SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Lincoln
Recipient
Meeker SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Meeker
Recipient
Waseca SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$100,000
Fund Source

Provides grants to Soil and Water Conservation Districts that focuses on increasing capacity to address four resource concern areas?Soil Erosion, Riparian Zone Management, Water Storage and Treatment, and Excess Nutrients.

Waseca
Recipient
Clearwater SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Clearwater
Recipient
Stevens SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source
Stevens
Recipient
Waseca SWCD
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Fund Source
Waseca
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
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
Pheasants Forever
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,061,000
Fund Source

The goal of this phase of the WPA acquisition program was to protect a total of 915 acres of grassland, wetland and other wildlife habitats as Waterfowl Production Areas open to public hunting. Pheasants Forever purchased 10 parcels totaling 1,150.27 acres of wetlands and grasslands in Minnesota's prairie region. In addition to exceeding our acre goals, $ 37,512.95 of grant funds will be returned.

Big Stone
Clay
Douglas
Grant
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Meeker
Otter Tail
Stearns
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,740,000
Fund Source

This phase of WMA acquisition protected 1,260.22 acres of prairie grassland, wetland, and other wildlife habitat as State Wildlife Management Areas open to public hunting. With these 9 acquisition we have exceeded our planned acres of 1030 by more than 230.22 acres. All of the acquired properties had wildlife habitat restored to the highest quality possible.

Carver
Douglas
Fillmore
Martin
Meeker
Nobles
Renville
Sibley
Steele
Recipient
Meeker County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,879
Meeker
Recipient
Meeker County Historical Society
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,947
Meeker
Recipient
Freeborn County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

133 microfilmed copies of seven newspapers from the general area were purchased by the Freeborn county Historical society for its research library. The newspapers span the years from 1870 to 2008 and provide a resource for researching family histories, businesses, government agencies, news media and general public infomation.

Freeborn
Recipient
City of Granite Falls
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,945
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Buffalo Ridge Chorale
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,972

Art Project

Lincoln
Lyon
Lac qui Parle
Recipient
Chord-Ayres
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Lac qui Parle
Big Stone
Big Stone
Swift
Chippewa
Yellow Medicine
Lyon
Renville
Redwood
Recipient
FungusAmongus Players
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Meeker
McLeod
Wright
Recipient
Granite Falls Historical Society AKA Andrew Volstead House Museum
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,850

Art Project Legacy

Yellow Medicine
Chippewa
Renville
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lyon
Recipient
Marshall Area Farmers Market
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,920

Art Project

Lyon
Yellow Medicine
Lincoln
Murray
Redwood
Recipient
Minnesota Pottery Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,956

Art Project

McLeod
Carver
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Meeker
Nicollet
Renville
Scott
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
New London Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Art Project

Anoka
Chippewa
Douglas
Hennepin
Hubbard
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Meeker
Olmsted
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Scott
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Wright
Recipient
Prairie Winds Concert Band
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,560

Art Project

Kandiyohi
Meeker
Renville
Chippewa
Swift
Recipient
Rhythm of the River
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Jackson
Cottonwood
Nobles
Rock
Murray
Lyon
Lincoln
Lake
Martin
Blue Earth
Nicollet
Brown
Stearns
Recipient
RiverSong Music Festival
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

McLeod
Meeker
Sibley
Wright
Nicollet
Kandiyohi
Redwood
Stearns
Anoka
Ramsey
Hennepin
Washington
Scott
Dakota
Le Sueur
Renville
Cass
Cass
Todd
Douglas
Pope
Swift
Chippewa
Carver
Scott
Dakota
St. Louis
Wadena
Pine
Chisago
Recipient
City of Spicer
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,080

Art Project

Kandiyohi
Stearns
Grant
Pope
Wright
Lyon
Meeker
Redwood
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
The Calumet Players, Inc.
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,996

Art Project

Pipestone
Mower
Lincoln
Lyon
Recipient
Crow River Youth Choir
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,120

Art Project

McLeod
Meeker
Renville
Wright
Recipient
Eden Valley-Watkins Community Education
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200

Art Project

Stearns
Meeker
Recipient
Hutchinson Center for the Arts
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000

Art Project

Hennepin
St. Louis
Ramsey
Carver
Meeker
McLeod
Recipient
Hutchinson Photography Club
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$912

Art Project

McLeod
Meeker
Wright
Carver
Hennepin
Recipient
Meander Art Crawl
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

Art Project

Chippewa
Big Stone
Swift
Yellow Medicine
Lac qui Parle