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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
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
Rhythm of the River
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
5th Annual Rhythm of the River.
Jackson
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will take piano lessons from a private instructor.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Rhythmic Circus Productions
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$104,700
Rhythmic Circus Productions (RCP) aims to present performances and educational outreach to seven communities throughout greater Minnesota, who have sought out RCP specifically based on its reputation, myriad of performing arts and creativity represented, and innovative and energetic learning opportunities.
Anoka
Recipient
New Ulm Suzuki School of Music
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
They will rent space for teaching and performance venues, and pay stipends for the accompanist and director.
Brown
Recipient
The Grand Center for Arts and Culture
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,740
They will sponsor their performing arts series and add music and spoken word performances.
Brown
Recipient
Wanda Gag House Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,420
They will offer summer arts classes for area youth during the Gag Summer Art Camp.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take cello lessons with a private instructor.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend St. Olaf Summer Music Camp.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,424
Funding for Discover the Art, a project offering new learning activities to expand and enrich three selected 2011 Banfill-Locke Gallery exhibitions between February and the end of September 2011.
Anoka
Recipient
MaMa mOsAiC
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for Mama Mosaic’s Conservatory, a two-week intensive theater-training program for young women of color. The summer 2011 program will culminate in a public performance to be held at Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis.
Anoka
Recipient
Musikgarten of Anoka
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funding for the 2011 summer/fall sessions of classes aimed at transforming children’s lives through music and movement activities, in the northwestern suburbs of Anoka County.
Anoka
Recipient
U of MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Foundation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The Sleepy Eye Area foundation retained the architectural services of Engan and Associates Architects to develop a reuse plan with construction estimates for the restoration of the Berg Hotel.

Brown
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,513

The project addressed a long standing need for more, better organized collections storage space for the Brown County Historical Society (BCHS) .

Brown
Recipient
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,075
Fund Source

The nine member Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) will be able to enhance our effectiveness to provide elevated levels of technical assistance, education and outreach in the areas of urban stormwater, wellhead protection, nutrient management, conservation agronomy, drainage and agricultural best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution in the Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Watonwan River Watersheds.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Two Rivers Chorale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,763
Funding for Transfiguration, an evening-length choral program featuring Requiem, Opus 9 by Maurice Durufle’ and the premier of two newly commissioned works. The performance will take place at Benson Great Hall at Bethel University in November 2011.
Anoka
Recipient
Lamplighter Community Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To produce "The Pirates of Penzance."
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,360
Spring concert.
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,570
Performance of Handel's "Messiah."
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
For the October 29 concert featuring works written for or with children in mind.
Todd
Recipient
Wah De Nah Historic and Environmental Learning Proj. AKA Old Wadena Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To put on the multi-disciplinary arts festival, "The Old Wadena Rendezvous and Folklife Festival."
Todd
Recipient
Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Funding for Art at Rice Creek, a free arts festival on the banks of Rice Creek and the Mississippi River in Anoka County. The daylong festival will feature visual, literary, and performance art experiences and will take place in September 2011.
Anoka
Recipient
Fridley Community Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Funding to produce and stage the organization’s second summer musical. Performances will take place in summer 2011 at the Fridley High School auditorium.
Anoka
Recipient
Northern Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,190
Funding for two concerts at Anoka High School in February and June 2010.
Anoka
Recipient
Lee Carlson Center Mental Health and Well-Being
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Funding for Movement, Source of Light II, and Perspective, a series of free visual art classes and studio time for adults living with mental illness. The series will culminate in a traveling exhibit displayed at locations throughout Anoka County.
Anoka