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Preservation Alliance of Minnesota
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,771

A prominent county courthouse, a Depression-era school building, an iconic Modern ice-cream stand, and a Northern Minnesota lakeside overlook are among the diverse sites named to the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota’s 2010 list of the state’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places.

A photographic exhibit featuring the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2010 was created with MHCG funds and displayed at museums, libraries, and other public places statewide throughout the year.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,076

779 audiotapes of Senate committee hearings were converted digital format, and a web page was created to access the online versions via the Legislative Web Site.  As a result, complete digital access of committee hearings and floor debates are available for both bodies back to 2004.  Important legislative debate is available to Internet users, regardless of the time of day or their locations.

Ramsey
Recipient
Minnesota State University-Mankato
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,000
Fund Source

MSU-Mankato Water Resources Center in the Mankato area will provide conventional pollutant monitoring at the following sites: Beauford Ditch, Big Cobb River, Blue Earth River, Le Sueur River (3), Little Cobb River, Minnesota River (2), Watonwan River.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Steele
Waseca
Watonwan
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
Ducks Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,528,000
Fund Source

This program will accelerate the improvement and protection of shallow lakes and large wetland habitat critical to migratory waterfowl and other wildlife in Minnesota by improving water quality and rejuvenating aquatic ecology in turbid shallow lake basins. DU will enhance eight (8) or more strategically-selected shallow lakes that have been legally designated by for wildlife management purposes by Minnesota DNR that total 6,000 wetland acres by engineering and implementing construction of water control structures, pumps, and fish barriers on their outlets.

Douglas
Faribault
Grant
Lac qui Parle
Murray
Stearns
Stearns
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
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
MN DNR
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$826,000
Fund Source

This program of on-the-ground conservation projects increased the wildlife and ecological values of forest communities on Minnesota's public forestlands. Restoration and enhancement projects in this program enhanced more than 10,000 acres of forest.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hubbard
Itasca
Kanabec
Koochiching
Lake
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Olmsted
Roseau
St. Louis
Stearns
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
City of Milaca AKA Milaca Parks Commission
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,920
Rec Fest 2012
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
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,616

2012 3-D Concert Series

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
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$15,000

Phase 2 Michael Richards Memorial Bronze Sculpture

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
Recipient
Franconia Sculpture Park
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,990

2012 Community Collaboration Hot Metal Pour

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
Recipient
St. Paul Parks & Recreation
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$210,900
Fund Source

Acquire 2.5 acres for Trout Brook Regional Trail

Ramsey
Recipient
Ramsey County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$168,917
Fund Source

At Bald Eagle-Otter Lakes Regional Park, acquire 1.27 acre inholding at 1700 North County Line Rd.

Ramsey
Recipient
White Bear Lake Area Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,232
To add 119 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records.
Ramsey
Recipient
Freeborn County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,954
To add 277 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records
Freeborn
Recipient
Grass Lake Watershed Management Organization
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,000
Fund Source

At 410 acres, Lake Owasso is the largest lake in the Grass Lake Water Management Organization (GLWMO) and one of the most pristine. Maintaining the lakes water quality is a priority for the GLWMO. A long urbanized area along Aladdin Street in Roseville currently lacks stormwater features to remove pollutants and reduce water volume. The rainwater from this area drains directly to a wetland which is hydrologically connected to Lake Owasso. Adjacent to the residential area is a 0.5 acre parking lot which drains into a ditch which eventually enters the same wetland.

Ramsey
Recipient
City of Alexandria
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
To draft a Historic Context Study and integrate the study with the city's comprehensive plan.
Douglas
Recipient
Freeborn County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To bring a variety of cultural heritage and arts programming to the fair, and purchase a stage.

Freeborn
Recipient
VSA Minnesota
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$216,000
Very Special Arts of Minnesota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Dakota
Anoka
Recipient
Anoka Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$400,000
Fund Source

A direct appropriation of $400,000 in FY 2010 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 (the law also provides $600,000 for this purpose in FY2011).

Anoka
Carver
Dakota
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Washington
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
Ramsey County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,750

In 2006, Ramsey County Historical Society (RCHS) purchased an additional 1.5 acres of the original Gibbs farmstead located adjacent to the existing Gibbs Museum property in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.  This purchase provided the impetus for updating and expanding the interpretive programs at Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life and creating a new master plan and landscape plan for the Museum. 

Ramsey
Recipient
Joseph P. Midthun
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,900
For an animated short in a rotoscope style exploring the coming of age in east central Minnesota in the early nineties.
Ramsey
Recipient
Brian T. Miller
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,500
To rehearse and record a CD of songs with Irish roots collected in Minnesota between 1870 and 1930.
Ramsey
Recipient
Benjamin A. Doty
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200
To complete six or more short stories toward finishing a short story collection.
Ramsey
Recipient
Anne E. Elias
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To produce and shoot a 60 minute non-narrative film for use as a central element in the performance piece A Good Distance.
Ramsey
Recipient
Ahmad M. Alam
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,400
To make and promote a recording of songs focusing on interfaith dialogue.
Ramsey
Recipient
Katrina M. Vandenberg
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To complete the research and writing of a series of poems about the Irish monks and saints and the alphabet for the manuscript--To The Man Who Steals My Electricity.
Ramsey
Recipient
Kathleen A. Glasgow
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,500
For the revision and preparation of a novel draft for submission to agents.
Ramsey
Recipient
Joshua L. Grubbs
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
To visually represent what it is like when everyday activities lead to internal moments of clarity and how these moments of clarity transform our perception.
Ramsey
Recipient
Mike Hazard
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,100
For creative time and mentoring to complete The Joy of Roy--a video portrait of the poet Roy McBride.
Ramsey
Recipient
Caly M. McMorrow
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,400
To study and create a new body of installation work focusing on audience interaction sound and light.
Ramsey
Recipient
John M. Akre
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Artist Initiative
Hennepin
Ramsey
Itasca
Olmsted
Recipient
Raina Belleau
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Matthew Burgess AKA Matt Burgess
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Artist Initiative
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
William J. Cottman
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Hennepin
Ramsey
Recipient
Sandra R. Dowd
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Artist Initiative
Hennepin
Ramsey
Scott
Dakota
Anoka
Carver