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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
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
Goodhue County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,325

The Goodhue County Historical Society purchased 61 rolls of microfilm covering recent editions of Cannon Falls, Kenyon and Zumbrota newspapers as well as early editions of the Red Wing newspapers.

Goodhue
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will take piano lessons from a private instructor.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Red Wing Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,585
The Play in the Park project will bring to Red Wing the Live Action Set Minneapolis theater group's production of, The 7-Shot Symphony, including a youth workshop and after-production.
Goodhue
Recipient
Red Wing Brass Band, Inc. AKA The Sheldon Theatre Brass Band
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$8,530
The Sheldon Theatre Brass Band, based in Red Wing, will perform for audiences in Milaca and Princeton.
Goodhue
Recipient
Lauren J. Pelon
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,990
Pelon will collaborate with writer Gary Holthaus to present, The Story of Music-Stories from Home, a program of music and spoken word, at seventeen arts centers, museums, and libraries in Minnesota.
Goodhue
Recipient
Laporte Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,950
Artists Ross Sutter and Margo McCreary will conduct a two-week artist in residency at Laporte Elementary School in which K-6 students will create and study birds, bird habitat, song, diet, flight, and more.
Hubbard
Recipient
New Ulm Suzuki School of Music
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
They will rent space for teaching and performance venues, and pay stipends for the accompanist and director.
Brown
Recipient
The Grand Center for Arts and Culture
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,740
They will sponsor their performing arts series and add music and spoken word performances.
Brown
Recipient
Wanda Gag House Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,420
They will offer summer arts classes for area youth during the Gag Summer Art Camp.
Brown
Recipient
Picaresque II
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,450
The Story of Music: Stories from Home.
Goodhue
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take cello lessons with a private instructor.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend St. Olaf Summer Music Camp.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
He will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will attend lessons at New Ulm Suzuki School of Music.
Brown
Recipient
Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,340
Funds will assist Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning to offer opportunities to experience the work of regional and local poets at four poetry readings and to attend a play about classic American poet Emily Dickinson.
Hubbard
Recipient
Northern Light Opera Company
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Funds will help the Northern Light Opera Company present six performances of “The Music Man” July 29 - August 7, 2011 at the Park Rapids Area High School Auditorium.
Hubbard
Recipient
City of Park Rapids
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,000
Funds will assist the city of Park Rapids to purchase a portable stage to create a safe performance space for arts activities and to help make these activities more accessible to all.
Hubbard
Recipient
Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,400
Funds will assist Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council to produce “Art Leap 2011”, a 2-day “open studio event,” including a driving tour of artists’ studios and other cultural destinations, live performances and a variety of workshops.
Hubbard
Recipient
U of MN
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300,000

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Aitkin
Becker
Cass
Crow Wing
Douglas
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Recipient
Sleepy Eye Area Foundation
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000

The Sleepy Eye Area foundation retained the architectural services of Engan and Associates Architects to develop a reuse plan with construction estimates for the restoration of the Berg Hotel.

Brown
Recipient
Brown County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$49,513

The project addressed a long standing need for more, better organized collections storage space for the Brown County Historical Society (BCHS) .

Brown
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,357

Two buses, each holding 52 people, were rented to take people to the Minnesota State Capitol and the Minnesota History Center.  The plan is to include people from Mahnomen, Frazee, Ulen, Lake Park, Cormorant and Detroit Lakes on this trip.  Buses leave at approximately 6:00 am from Detroit Lakes with arrival at the Capitol/History Center scheduled for approximately 10:30 am.  One busload will tour the capitol while the other bus tours the History Center.  After tour the groups would switch venues - First Capitol group would go to tour the History

Becker
Clay
Mahnomen
Recipient
MN Trout Unlimited
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,269,000
Fund Source

This program will restore and/or enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in six coldwater streams located in existing Aquatic Management Areas and one Minnesota State Park. The proposed projects will improve habitat for both game and non-game fish and wildlife species uniquely associated with coldwater trout streams and provide expanded recreational opportunities for Minnesota anglers.

Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Goodhue
Recipient
Nemeth Art Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,930
Capital will be used for operating expenses such as electricity, partial salary, maintenance costs and museum supplies
Hubbard
Recipient
Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
Funds from the grant will be used to support new and on-going projects of the Park Rapids Lakes Area Arts Council.
Hubbard
Recipient
Wadena Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

This project will provide Stressor ID work and assistance for the development of a work plan for the Major Watershed Project. The Major Watershed Project will include a plan for civic engagement and outreach, with assistance from ten Local Government Units from the Crow Wing River Watershed.

Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Wadena
Recipient
Wadena Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$30,000
Fund Source

This project will initiate project coordination among project partners. It will enhance civic engagement and outreach endeavors activities to support Phase 2 of TMDL project. It will also support field activities associated with stressor ID work.

Becker
Cass
Clearwater
Crow Wing
Hubbard
Morrison
Otter Tail
Wadena
Recipient
Sand Hill River Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$178,139
Fund Source

This first phase of project will define the existing watershed conditions; identify gaps in existing data; design and implement a plan to address data gaps; incorporate gap data into watershed description; guide development of the HSPF model; establish citizen advisory, technical advisory and locally-based focus groups; research and design an education and outreach strategy; and design and deploy the tools and methods to employ the strategy.

Mahnomen
Norman
Polk
Recipient
Zumbro Watershed Partnership, Inc.
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$81,750
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$58,218
Fund Source

This project will complete an implementation plan, as required by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, for the Zumbro River turbidity TMDL project. It will also revise the Zumbro River Watershed Management Plan (completed 2007) to ensure it continues to reflect local needs, incorporates new information, and develops more effective linkages with related local, state and federal government programs.

Dodge
Goodhue
Mower
Olmsted
Rice
Steele
Wabasha