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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
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500,000
Fund Source

We protected 22.3 miles of trout streams and 1.3 miles of lakeshore via easements (585 acres in total), and 7.4 miles (504 acres) of lakeshore through fee-title purchase. We enhanced shoreline habitat on 524 acres of riparian land, and instream habitat on 3.1 miles of trout streams and 0.5 miles of warmwater rivers.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Blue Earth
Cass
Chisago
Clay
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Houston
Hubbard
Itasca
Kandiyohi
Lake
Morrison
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Redwood
Rice
Scott
St. Louis
Swift
Wabasha
Winona
Recipient
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,652,000
Fund Source

This appropriation funded 283 projects totaling 21,953 acres. The two largest types of enhancement were 112 woody removal projects totaling 10,160 acres and 134 prescribed burns totaling 10,082 acres. Additionally, we seeded 30 sites totaling 1386 acres, put in infrastructure for conservation grazing of 236 acres on 3 sites, conducted 3 oak savanna enhancements totaling 42 acres, and treated 47 acres of invasive species on 2 sites.

Anoka
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Chippewa
Clay
Cottonwood
Dodge
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Houston
Isanti
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Lyon
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Redwood
Renville
Sherburne
Sibley
Stearns
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Pheasants Forever
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,815,000
Fund Source

This program accelerated the permanent protection of 2,267 acres of wetlands (465 acres) and grasslands (1,802 acres) as Waterfowl Production Areas open to public hunting in Minnesota. Over the course of the appropriation, PF acquired 18 parcels for a total of 2,267 acres which exceeded our total acre goal of 2,250 acres by 17 acres. Breaking down acres by ecological section we exceeded our acre goal for both the metropolitan area by 61 acres and in the prairie area by 346 acres. We have exceeded anticipated match of $5,125,000 by $771,500.

Blue Earth
Clay
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Lac qui Parle
Meeker
Murray
Otter Tail
Pope
Rice
Sibley
Wright
Recipient
Scott County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,846
Fund Source

Acquire 21-acre Union Pacific parcel for Scott County Regional Trail

Scott
Recipient
Scott County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$269,022
Fund Source

Blakely Bluffs Park Reserve. Acquire an 84-acre parcel (Wells Fargo) for park visitor center and maintenance facility.

Scott
Recipient
Scott County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$153,102
Fund Source

Blakeley Bluffs Park Reserve. Acquire 10 areas for park reserve (Albrecht Hutchinson parcel).

Scott
Recipient
Scott County
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$34,324
Fund Source

Blakeley Bluffs Park Reserve. Acquire 240.05 acres for Blakeley Bluffs Park Reserve (Albrecht Hutchinson parcel - year 1 of 2)

Scott
Recipient
Scott County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,000
To send two people to the American Association of Museums annual meeting and conference, April 29-May 2, 2012, in Minneapolis.
Scott
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
Arlington, City of
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$640,339
Fund Source

Construct treatment plant improvements

Sibley
Recipient
Blue Mound Area Theatre
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,485
Prudence Johnson Concert
Rock
Recipient
Prairie Dance Alliance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,450
Dance Camp
Lyon
Murray
Yellow Medicine
Redwood
Rock
Lincoln
Renville
Traverse
Recipient
Rock County Fine Arts Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,400
Art Rocks Fine Arts Festival
Rock
Nobles
Pipestone
Recipient
Willmar Area Arts Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,350
Celebrate Art! Celebrate Coffee!
Kandiyohi
Swift
Chippewa
Meeker
McLeod
Renville
Lyon
Redwood
Rock
Recipient
Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Concert
Nobles
Jackson
Cottonwood
Pipestone
Martin
Rock
Murray
Redwood
Recipient
Council for Arts and Humanities Rock County AKA Carnegie Cultural Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$19,875
Frederick Manfred-Scribe of Sioux land, 2012: A Year of Celebration
Rock
Nobles
Pipestone
Recipient
Blue Mound Area Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,850
Vocal Essence Chorus.
Rock
Recipient
Luverne Area Community Foundation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Documentary Tour 2011, Vocal Essence.
Rock
Recipient
Blue Mound Area Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Zenon Dance Residency.
Rock
Recipient
Scott Lloyd Anderson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Hennepin
Scott
Stearns
St. Louis
Recipient
Sandra R. Dowd
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Dakota
Anoka
Carver
Recipient
Vance F. Gellert AKA Vance Gellert
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Dakota
Ramsey
Washington
Scott
Goodhue
Itasca
Stearns
Otter Tail
Blue Earth
Winona
Recipient
Natalie Nowytski
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,400
Artist Initiative
Anoka
Benton
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Le Sueur
Mower
Nicollet
Olmsted
Pine
Ramsey
Scott
Sherburne
Stearns
Washington
Wright
Recipient
Kao Lee Thao
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,650
Debut twelve paintings depicting Hmong folktale heroines at the Runway Art Show. Host “Ask a Hmong Artist," an open community discussion about the pursuit of artistic careers.
Scott
Recipient
Friends of the Hopkins Center for the Arts
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$64,003
Arts Tour Minnesota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Carver
Scott
Rice
Washington
Isanti
Anoka
Goodhue
Sherburne
Brown
Kandiyohi
Chisago
Olmsted
Pine
Wright
Recipient
Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia AKA Minnesota Sinfonia
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,660
Arts Tour Minnesota
Yellow Medicine
Renville
Kandiyohi
McLeod
Rock
Nobles
Jackson
Redwood
Rice
Recipient
Prudence J. Johnson AKA Prudence Johnson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$44,000
Arts Tour Minnesota
Beltrami
Wadena
Hennepin
Hubbard
Rock
Pope
Rice
Carver
Otter Tail
Goodhue
Crow Wing
Recipient
Minnesota Chorale
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,950
Arts Access
Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
Recipient
Ragamala Dance
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Arts Access
Hennepin
Scott
Recipient
Pulse Productions
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,940
Funding for “The Masterwork Invitational,” an opportunity for students in four Twin Cities area high school choirs to study, prepare, and perform Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with local professional musicians as clinicians and concert soloists, in November 20
Scott
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
Youth Scholarship
Sibley
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
Youth Scholarship
Sibley
Recipient
The Grand Center for Arts and Culture
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Brown
Nicollet
Sibley
Watonwan
Recipient
Green Isle Community School
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,500
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Le Sueur
McLeod
Scott
Sibley
Recipient
Mankato Area Arts Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Brown
Faribault
Le Sueur
Martin
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Mankato Area Community Band
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,100
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Faribault
Le Sueur
Nicollet
Sibley
Waseca
Recipient
Minnesota Over Sixty Band
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Dodge
Faribault
Freeborn
Goodhue
Jackson
Kandiyohi
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
Meeker
Mower
Nicollet
Nobles
Ramsey
Redwood
Renville
Sibley
Steele
Watonwan
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Minnesota State University-Mankato
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,500
Minnesota State University-Mankato Performance Series
Blue Earth
Brown
Carver
Cottonwood
Dakota
Dodge
Faribault
Goodhue
Hennepin
Jackson
Le Sueur
Lyon
Martin
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Olmsted
Pipestone
Ramsey
Redwood
Rice
Rock
Scott
Sibley
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Musicorum
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,935
Arts and Cultural Heritage, Arts Project
Blue Earth
Brown
Hennepin
Nicollet
Sibley