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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
DNR
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,791,000
Fund Source

This program will increase populations of a variety of game and non-game wildlife species by protecting and enhancing forest habitats on which wildlife depends. This program of on-the-ground forest conservation projects will amplify the wildlife value of forest communities on DNR administered forestlands. Our forest enhancement will treat 4,472 ac. These activities are not conducted as part of the DNR's commercial timber operations. Additionally, our program will acquire 404 acres of forestland that contributes to habitat complexes and other high priorities.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Benton
Cass
Chisago
Cook
Crow Wing
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hennepin
Hubbard
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Olmsted
Pine
Rice
Roseau
St. Louis
St. Louis
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
Iron Range Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$518

To add 17 rolls of microfilmed newspapers to broaden public accessibility to primary records

St. Louis
Recipient
Sisu Heritage Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$60,500

To stabilize and restore the exterior and foundation of the Alex Seitaniemi Housebarn, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

St. Louis
Recipient
Arlington, City of
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$640,339
Fund Source

Construct treatment plant improvements

Sibley
Recipient
Arrowhead Library System
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$439,943
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$457,937

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.

Carlton
Cook
Itasca
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
St. Louis
Recipient
Michelle M. Matthees
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
To devote one year to writing full-time.
St. Louis
Recipient
David Bowen
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$9,300
An installation that will draw information from the movement of waves on Lake Superior creating a simulation of the physical effects caused by this movement in a gallery space.
St. Louis
Recipient
The Ely Artwalk
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,085
Produce annual 11 day event featuring 600 pieces of art created by local artists and displayed in Ely merchants' windows.
St. Louis
Recipient
Arrowhead Chorale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000

Arts in Education Touring/Performing

St. Louis
Recipient
Sound Unseen International Duluth
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,658

Produce festival of film, music and art.

St. Louis
Recipient
The College of Saint Scholastica
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,750
The College of St. Scholastica is requesting a one year grant that would provide critical funding for its 2010-2011 Performing Arts Series, which offers a variety of arts experiences that would not normally be available in this largely rural region.
St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,147
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will substantially expand its service to hospice patients by creating a new partnership with St. Mary's Medical Center, building our current relationship with St. Luke's Hospice Duluth and increasing the number of trained hospice musicians.
St. Louis
Recipient
Tweed Museum of Art
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$13,518

Tweed will engage Native audiences by 1)presenting museum collections and resources; 2)seeking input; and 3)documenting artists and resources to engage for programming.

St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Art Institute Association AKA Duluth Art Institute
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,190
The Duluth Art Institute will host internationally recognized artist Wing Young Huie to present two community workshops in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Duluth to engage audiences with issues of identity and diversity through the use of portrait photography.
St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Festival Opera
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$94,000
The Duluth Festival Opera plans to tour a fully staged production of a new opera, "Pocahontas," composed by Minnesotan Linda Tutas Haugen in 2007, which features the music of Native Minnesota Ojibwe musicians.
St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,670
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation, Carlton MN; and the city of Two Harbors.
St. Louis
Recipient
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$22,000
The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra will bring two concerts to venues outside of Duluth presented by Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Foundation at Otter Creek Event Center, Carlton and Myles Reif Performing Arts Center, Grand Rapids.
St. Louis
Recipient
Grant Community School Collaborative
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Peace O' Ground, a year-long integrated arts initiative, will provide children, families, and neighbors of Duluth's Hillside multiple opportunities to experience and participate in deepening understanding of their neighborhood through the literary, visual, and performing arts.
St. Louis
Recipient
Ironworld Development Corporation AKA Minnesota Discovery Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,590
Minnesota Discovery Center plans to present the Slavic cultural heritage performance group the Duquesne University Tamburitzans.
St. Louis
Recipient
Matinee Musicale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,920
We will present four concerts by world-class chamber musicians: Osmo Vanska's celebrated quintet, exciting mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke, the vital Copper Street Brass Quintet, and dazzling young pianist Grace Fong. Cooke, the Brass Quintet, and Fong will present master classes.
St. Louis
Recipient
Matinee Musicale
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
Matinee Musicale will bring the Parker Quartet to Duluth to perform in October 2011; the quartet also will give lecture/demonstrations for two high schools and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Symphony. The violinist Arnaud Sussmann will perform in concert in November.
St. Louis
Recipient
Northern Lights Music Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,300
The Northern Lights Chamber Players will present chamber music concerts in four Minnesota cities; a fully staged production of Peter and the Wolf will tour to Ely after performances in Aurora.
St. Louis
Recipient
Saint James Home of Duluth, Inc. AKA Woodland Hills
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Woodland Hills arts learners will use a guided creative process to explore causes, impacts, and solutions surrounding teen violence, while acquiring skills necessary to create and perform a theatrical production and foster dialogue about this issue.
St. Louis
Recipient
Green Isle Community School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
They will have an Artist in Residency where students interview elders and work with local artists to create plays based on the elder’s lives.
Sibley
Recipient
Minnesota New Country School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
They will provide 8-10 arts and cultural field trips, to students for the current and upcoming school year.
Sibley
Recipient
All Souls Night
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,329
Produce All Souls Night, a fall themed Duluth community visual and performing arts festival.
St. Louis
Recipient
The College of Saint Scholastica
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,658
Host a performance and educational workshop by the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company in October, 2011.
St. Louis
Recipient
The College of Saint Scholastica
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,990

Engage visual artist Tacoumba Aiken to work with area residents of all ages to collaboratively design and paint a canvas wall mural.

St. Louis
Recipient
The College of Saint Scholastica
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,658
Host a performance of The Intergalactic Nemesis in November, 2011.
St. Louis
Recipient
Common Language
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,470
Host the 10th Annual North Shore Iron Pour and iron casting seminar.
St. Louis
Recipient
Crescendo Youth Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,390
Host a string camp in Hibbing in June 2011.
St. Louis
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take piano lessons with a private instructor.
Sibley
Recipient
Ely Greenstone Public Arts Committee
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,780
Produce 2011 Children's Art Camp.
St. Louis
Recipient
Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,454
For a photography workshop for youth on artistic photography.
St. Louis
Recipient
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Produce the Quartet Project an annual string quartet training program for high school and upper middle school students in Duluth.
St. Louis
Recipient
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,603
Present a multimedia event featuring projected images and live dance in conjunction with a chamber orchestra performance.
St. Louis