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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
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
Cokato Elementary
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
Greg Olson, CEO, writer, story teller, and main presenter, will work with students kindergarten through fourth grade. They will learn, through the use of live animals, the appropriate way to tell a story. Students will also learn that storytelling is used
Wright
Recipient
Delano Middle School
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,950
This proposal is for a collaborative project between Zoran Mojsilov, Delano School Middle School and numerous Delano organizations to create a sculpture as a tribute to the Delano Community, past and present. Zoran will work with the 7th grade classes thr
Wright
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take classes at Jill Hoggard Academy of Dance.
Waseca
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$10,200
Saint Francis Music Center will create a preschool music program that encompasses a weekly program and several larger activities to reach a broad audience of preschoolers and parents.
Morrison
Recipient
Wadena-Deer Creek School District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,836
Wadena-Deer Creek students will work with Arts Board teaching artists in theater, visual arts, and music to create works of art using the create, perform, and respond process and to learn creative problem solving strategies enhancing learning across the curriculum.
Wadena
Recipient
Minnesota's Agricultural Interpretive Center AKA Farmamerica
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,545
They will sponsor the creation of 4-6 paintings or drawings portraying people engaged in rural and agricultural life.
Waseca
Recipient
Waseca Arts Council, Inc.
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,000
They will sponsor monthly art exhibits, a bi-weekly cable TV show, an artist-in-residency program, and add new education classes.
Waseca
Recipient
Waseca County Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200
They will sponsor the 9th annual Chautauqua with musicians and an interactive theater.
Waseca
Recipient
Name of minor withheld due to MN Statutes 2018, section 3.303.10
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$300
She will take violin lessons with a private instructor.
Waseca
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
City of Hanover
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

to construct the Beebe Lake Regional Trail, which is a new 3.8 mile bicycle and pedestrian trail along CSAH 34 in the cities of Hanover and St. Michael

Wright
Recipient
Bois de Sioux Watershed District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
Fund Source

This project will develop a watershed approach plan, including impaired waters allocations, for the Mustinka Watershed, located at the headwaters of the Red River of the North, in western Minnesota, lying partly in Grant, Stevens, Ottertail, Big Stone, and Traverse counties. The watershed approach plan will set water quality goals for the watershed, recommend allocations for achieving total maximum daily loads where waters do not meet state standards and are listed as impaired.

Big Stone
Grant
Otter Tail
Stevens
Traverse
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
Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$242,075
Fund Source

The nine member Counties and Soil and Water Conservation Districts of the Greater Blue Earth River Basin Alliance (GBERBA) will be able to enhance our effectiveness to provide elevated levels of technical assistance, education and outreach in the areas of urban stormwater, wellhead protection, nutrient management, conservation agronomy, drainage and agricultural best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollution in the Blue Earth, Le Sueur and Watonwan River Watersheds.

Blue Earth
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Waseca
Watonwan
Recipient
Verndale Community Education
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,900
To support the Prairie Fire Theatre's one week theatre residency.
Wadena
Recipient
Whiskey Creek Film Festival
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To support the annual film festival.
Wadena
Recipient
Great River Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,760
Gallery shows.
Morrison
Recipient
Great River Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,020
Teen night art classes.
Morrison
Recipient
Boys and Girls Club of Morrison County
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
To invite a resident artist and arts educator, Jodi Legeros, to conduct fine arts programs at the Little Falls club location.
Morrison
Recipient
Menahga Arts Guild
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
For a Youth Visual Art Camp for children ages 5-12.
Wadena
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,950
To develop a multi-generational community choral group focused on teens and adults.
Morrison
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,750
To support the 2011 U-Rock Summer Music Camp for youth.
Morrison
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$950
To support a community fiddle festival.
Morrison
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,990
Spring Music Festival.
Morrison
Recipient
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls AKA Saint Francis Music Center
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500
To develop a community choral group focused on Senior Citizens.
Morrison
Recipient
Great River Arts Association
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To present four performances of "Seasons of Love: A Broadway Sampler."
Morrison
Recipient
Heartland Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,650
Winter concerts.
Morrison
Recipient
Heartland Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,250
To perform the spring concert, "The HSO Presents: Youthful Talent" in Brainerd and Little Falls.
Morrison
Recipient
Heartland Symphony Orchestra
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,550
To produce the symphony's fall 2011 concerts.
Morrison
Recipient
Madhatters Community Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
Madlab production of "Rabbit Hole."
Wadena
Recipient
Madhatters Community Theatre
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,200
A two-week music/dance/drama day camp for young people ages 8-18.
Wadena
Recipient
Staples Area Men's Chorus
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,010
To support Real Men Sing 2011.
Wadena
Recipient
Two Rivers Music Fest
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
For an annual family event with music, arts and crafts.
Morrison
Recipient
USA Community Chorus
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,500
Two workshops for high school singers in five area schools.
Morrison
Recipient
USA Community Chorus
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,500
Artistic showcase highlighting Veteran's Day.
Morrison
Recipient
USA Community Chorus
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,500
To support the Chorus' 11th Annual Veteran's Day Show.
Morrison
Recipient
Wadena Area Concert Band
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,350
To prepare, rehearse and perform for the community.
Wadena