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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.