All Projects

82 Results for
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,700,000
Fund Source

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.

Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Chippewa
Cottonwood
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Sibley
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wadena
Waseca
Watonwan
Winona
Winona
Recipient
Pheasants Forever with USFWS and Ducks Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,600,000
Fund Source

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.

Becker
Clay
Cottonwood
Douglas
Freeborn
Grant
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lincoln
Lyon
McLeod
Otter Tail
Pope
Renville
Rice
Steele
Stevens
Traverse
Traverse
Recipient
Becker County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$334
To add 12 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records
Becker
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,748,000
Fund Source

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.

Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Lake
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Athena O. Kildegaard
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,040
To spend time in Saint Peter exploring and researching the Minnesota River and then work with a mentor to revise and shape a manuscript of poems.
Stevens
Recipient
Christine M. Kolaya AKA Chrissy Kolaya
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
For time to research outline and draft her second novel.
Stevens
Recipient
Julie Elick
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000

Promotional signs for Artists on Main a cooperative group of 20 artists

Roseau
Recipient
Palmville Press and Publishing Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Purchase printer
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau Area Arts Association
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
Prairie Fire Children's Theater workshop and performance
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau Area Arts Association
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,600
Transportation to Bemidji arts events
Roseau
Recipient
City of Roseau
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,950
Scandinavian Festival artists Skalmusik
Roseau
Recipient
Roseau Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,520
Writer residencies
Roseau
Recipient
Cass County Environmental Services Department
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,971
Fund Source

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.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Morrison
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Becker County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,418
To catalog and rehouse approximately 3500 manuscripts items
Becker
Recipient
MN Trout Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,050,000
Fund Source

This program will restore and enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in 11 watersheds across the state of Minnesota. The proposed projects will improve habitat for both game and non-game fish and wildlife species uniquely associated with cold water trout streams and provide expanded recreational opportunities for Minnesota anglers.

Becker
Benton
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hubbard
Olmsted
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To create two new programs -- beginning ballet and preschool music and strings class.
Morrison
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,950
To fund the Saint Francis Community Chorale
Morrison
Recipient
Heartland Symphony Orchestra
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,710
Fall concert of Death and Transfiguration
Morrison
Recipient
Upsala Swanville Community Chorus AKA USA Community Chorus
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Three choral workshops for elementary school age children
Morrison
Recipient
Stevens County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000
To assist in acquiring and installing compact storage to better preserve significant evidence from the county's past.
Stevens
Recipient
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,964
Fund Source

This project will collect a complete Trophic Site Index (TSI) data set for Crow Wing County lakes and a complete data set for streams and rivers for the Intensive Monitoring Program (IMP). Crow Wing County, Cass County, Wadena County, Morrison County and Hubbard County are partnering to ensure that all target lakes and rivers within the Crow Wing River watershed are monitored efficiently.

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Danebod Lutheran Church and Folk School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,551

The early nineteen hundred drawing by Jes Smidt exhibited in a lecture hall at the Danebod Folk School complex was safely removed and transported to the Midwest Art Conservation Center laboratories where condition reports and treatment proposals for conservation of the drawing were determined.

Lincoln
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,234,350
Fund Source

Currently, there are approximately 5,050 feedlots with fewer than 300 animal units that need to come into compliance with State feedlot rules. Clean Water Feedlot Water Quality Management Grant funds are being used to provide financial assistance to landowners with feedlot operations less than 300 animal units in size and located in a riparian area or impaired watershed.

Aitkin
Benton
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Morrison
Renville
Stearns
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Great River Arts Association
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,605
Operating support
Morrison
Recipient
Heartland Symphony Orchestra
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,712
Operating support
Morrison
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Administration
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,420
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,314

Per Minnesota Laws, 2009, Chapter 172, Article 4, Section 2, Subd. 5, "Funds in this subdivision are appropriated to the commissioner of the Department of Administration for grants to the named organizations for the purposes specified in this subdivision. Up to one percent of funds may be used by the Department of Administration for grants administration. Grants made to public television or radio organizations are subject to Minnesota Statutes, sections 129D.18 and 129D.19."

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
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Great River Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$483,371
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405,673

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Benton
Morrison
Sherburne
Stearns
Todd
Wright
Recipient
Prairie Country Resource Conservation & Development, c/o Hawk Creek Watershed Project
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$52,753
Fund Source

This project will assess 4 lakes and 17 stream sites. The four lakes will be assessed for total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a, and secchi data by the HCWP staff. Staff will monitor East Twin, West Twin, West Solomon, and St. John’s Lakes for total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a, and Secchi disk readings. In order to obtain a sufficient dataset. Ten samples will be collected over 2 years. Water samples at 17 stream locations for chemical analyses, including intensive watershed monitoring sites and “non-target” sites.

Chippewa
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Redwood
Renville
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Friends of the Detroit Lakes Wetland Management
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results

Becker
Recipient
Lisa M. Sherwood
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To plan and produce a body of photography for display
Morrison
Recipient
Matthew Toenies
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$370
To prepare current paintings for a show at the Family Medical Center in Little Falls
Morrison
Recipient
DLCCC, Inc. AKA Historic Holmes Theatre
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,385
General operating support
Becker
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,776
General operating support
Morrison
Recipient
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$225,542
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$279,619

Minnesota’s Legacy Amendment raises revenue for Clean Water, Outdoor Heritage, Parks and Trails, and Arts and Cultural Heritage. Libraries are beneficiaries of a portion of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Funding.

Becker
Clay
Clearwater
Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Wilkin
Recipient
Lake View Township
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$38,000
Fund Source

Evaluate alternatives to fix failing septic systems in unsewered area

Becker
Recipient
Lake of the Woods Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$39,134
Fund Source

This project will provide monitoring of four of the major watersheds (8-digit Hydrologic Unit Codes) in the western part of the Rainy River Basin. Staff from the Lake of the Woods SWCD will conduct water quality sampling, review, manage and provide collected data to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).

Beltrami
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake of the Woods
Roseau
Recipient
AECOM, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source

Phase 4 of the Lake Winona Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) project will finalize the draft Lake Winona TMDL, dated November 2009, by completing additional data analysis, lake quality modeling, updating the TMDL report, and supporting the public involvement process.

Cass
Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Recipient
DLCCC, Inc. AKA Historic Holmes Theatre
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,000
For Dallas Brass concert and workshops
Becker
Recipient
University of Minnesota-Morris
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,150
For a Spanish film festival
Stevens
Recipient
Christine M. Kolaya AKA Chrissy Kolaya
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,983
To write a novel. For research costs and writer residency
Stevens