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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
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
$936,000
Fund Source

Water control structures and dikes were designed and constructed on six Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) in the counties of Becker, Clearwater, Itasca, Lincoln, Roseau, and Yellow Medicine. Dike work at Roseau River WMA protects and enhances 3200 acres of wetlands wetlands in Pool 2 of the WMA. Roseau River WMA has 10 large water control structures, seven moist soil cells, and four large pools covering 11,800 acres. Cells for a moist soil unit were constructed at Lac Qui Parle WMA in Lac Qui Parle County.

Becker
Clearwater
Itasca
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Roseau
Todd
Yellow Medicine
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
Ann Bickle Heritage House
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,810
To replace the roof on the Ann Bickle House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and currently used as a women's center.
Pope
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
Oboe mentorship
Todd
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
Violin mentorship
Todd
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
French horn mentorship
Todd
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
Bass mentorship
Todd
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850
French horn mentorship
Todd
Recipient
Ensemble 61
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$25,256
Arts Tour Minnesota
Douglas
Pope
Otter Tail
Recipient
Rolf C. Erdahl AKA Pages of Music with Rolf and Carrie
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$16,719
Arts Tour Minnesota
Todd
Morrison
Stearns
Benton
Sherburne
Wright
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Wadena
Stevens
Goodhue
Recipient
Lisa M. Fuglie AKA Monroe Crossing
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$80,000
Arts Tour Minnesota
Wabasha
Steele
Becker
Mower
Kandiyohi
Koochiching
Pope
Itasca
St. Louis
Lyon
Nobles
Jackson
Crow Wing
Rice
Todd
Otter Tail
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
MacPhail Center for Music
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$112,228
Arts Learning
Chippewa
Hennepin
Kandiyohi
Pope
Stearns
Swift
Recipient
Alison M. Mattila AKA Alison Scott
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,901
Arts Tour Minnesota
Blue Earth
Le Sueur
Mower
Nicollet
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Winona
Recipient
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet Association AKA Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,350
Arts Tour Minnesota
Brown
Carlton
Chisago
Dakota
Faribault
Goodhue
Martin
Morrison
Mower
Pine
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Steele
Todd
Waseca
Recipient
Mixed Blood Theatre Company
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,035
Arts Tour Minnesota
Becker
Douglas
Lake of the Woods
Nicollet
Nobles
Otter Tail
Pope
St. Louis
Wright
Recipient
Michael B. Nelson
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,880
Arts Tour Minnesota
Clay
Todd
Rice
Winona
Recipient
Pope County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500

To partner with local non-profits to bring arts and cultural heritage demonstrations to the Pope County Fair. Demonstrations will range from quilting and spinning to the fine arts, rosemaling, and lefse making.

Pope
Recipient
The Rose Ensemble
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$74,796
Arts Tour Minnesota
Lake
St. Louis
Douglas
Todd
Morrison
Pennington
Polk
Becker
Recipient
Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,282
Youth Music and Arts Showcase IV
Hubbard
Wadena
Becker
Clearwater
Hennepin
Todd
Recipient
Pope County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To enhance the free arts and cultural heritage performances on Pope County Fair's Free Stage by installing a permanent sound system and bring a Medicine Wagon Show to perform multiple shows each day of the fair. Additionally, to mount historical markers around the fair to explain the history of the buildings and fairgrounds.

Pope
Recipient
Todd County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase access to arts and cultural heritage programming at the Todd County Fair by enhancing a stage, improving the fine arts display area, hosting an array of demonstrations, and featuring an Irish band and theater group.

Todd
Recipient
Cass County Environmental Services Department
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$198,971
Fund Source

This monitoring project includes lake and stream monitoring and encompasses all of Cass County, and surrounding counties. The project will obtain water quality data for streams; in 2009, lakeshed assessments indicated that many surface waters throughout the county were data deficient. This project will address the need for sufficient data on a county-wide basis and fulfill the State’s intensive watershed monitoring program goals by obtaining water quality data at targeted lake and stream sites.

Aitkin
Becker
Beltrami
Carlton
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Itasca
Morrison
Otter Tail
St. Louis
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Dreams United/Suenos Unidos, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,470
A large mural upon the entrance to the library depicting growing up Latino and growing up Caucasian in Long Prairie
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Visitor Center AKA Long Prairie Tourism and Visitors Bureau
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Thursday evening concerts in the park
Todd
Recipient
Staples Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,700
To gather stories about the Staples railroad hire a playwright and music composer to work with students ages 8-18 to write songs and play vignettes to be performed on August 29
Todd
Recipient
Staples Motley Area Arts Council
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Sponsoring Prairie Fire Children's Theatre "Alice in Wonderland"
Todd
Recipient
Wah De Nah Historic and Environmental Learning Proj. AKA Old Wadena Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To support the Old Wadena Rendezvous and Folklife Festival a multidisciplinary arts festival
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,430
Natalia Heikes concerts
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,830
Andrew Sords concerts
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,020
History of the Symphony concert
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Visitor Center AKA Long Prairie Tourism and Visitors Bureau
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
Long Prairie Concert Series
Todd
Recipient
Staples Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,775
Staples Railway Depot exhibit
Todd
Recipient
Staples Motley Area Arts Council
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200
Accidental Hero
Todd
Recipient
Wah De Nah Historic and Environmental Learning Proj. AKA Old Wadena Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Community Arts Access Project
Todd
Recipient
Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,640
Handel's "Messiah"
Todd
Recipient
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$45,964
Fund Source

This project will collect a complete Trophic Site Index (TSI) data set for Crow Wing County lakes and a complete data set for streams and rivers for the Intensive Monitoring Program (IMP). Crow Wing County, Cass County, Wadena County, Morrison County and Hubbard County are partnering to ensure that all target lakes and rivers within the Crow Wing River watershed are monitored efficiently.

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena