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142 Results for
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
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,913,000
Fund Source

This program will protect 800 acres of new wildlife habitat in the Prairie, Deciduous Transition, and Southeast Bluffland ecological sections of Minnesota through fee title acquisition. Title of all lands acquired will be held by the State and designated as Wildlife Management Area open to hunting, trapping, fishing and compatible outdoor recreation uses.

Cottonwood
Dakota
Martin
Meeker
Nicollet
Nicollet
Recipient
Ducks Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,528,000
Fund Source

This program will accelerate the improvement and protection of shallow lakes and large wetland habitat critical to migratory waterfowl and other wildlife in Minnesota by improving water quality and rejuvenating aquatic ecology in turbid shallow lake basins. DU will enhance eight (8) or more strategically-selected shallow lakes that have been legally designated by for wildlife management purposes by Minnesota DNR that total 6,000 wetland acres by engineering and implementing construction of water control structures, pumps, and fish barriers on their outlets.

Douglas
Faribault
Grant
Lac qui Parle
Murray
Stearns
Stearns
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
Clearwater County Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$673

Grant was used to purchase 24 microfilm rolls of the local newspapers in Clearwater County and fill in from neighboring counties newspapers.

Clearwater
Recipient
Dassel Area Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$469

With the grant the Dassel Area Historical Society purchased 17 rolls of microfilm for local newspapers published in Meeker County covering Dassel.

Meeker
Recipient
Dassel Area Historical Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,112
Universal Laboratories fence mural project
Meeker
Recipient
William A. Gorcica AKA Bill Gorcica
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To develop richer sensor-based works such as his proposed Rowing Through the Subconscious that enable participants to have greater control over experiencing his digital drawings and animations using physical computing methods.
Stearns
Recipient
Daniel J. Mondloch
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$475
To support and assist central Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging professional development and training that will advance their artistic and business skills and further their career as an artist.
Stearns
Recipient
Lisa A. Ambrosch
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,248
To support and assist central Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging professional development and training that will advance their artistic and business skills and further their career as an artist.
Stearns
Recipient
Lisa A. Ambrosch
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
To support and assist central Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by providing them with opportunities to work one-on-one with a professional artist over a one or two year time frame to advance their skills as an artist.
Stearns
Recipient
Tina M. Lamberts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
To support and assist central Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by providing them with opportunities to work one-on-one with a professional artist over a one or two year time frame to advance their skills as an artist.
Stearns
Recipient
Willicey A. Tynes
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$690
To support and assist central Minnesota artists at various stages in their careers by encouraging professional development and training that will advance their artistic and business skills and further their career as an artist.
Stearns
Recipient
Clear Waters Life Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,018
To assist in hiring two artists to work with the community through a series of workshops for the purpose of designing and fabricating a sculpture for the Clear Waters Life Center.
Clearwater
Recipient
Clearbrook-Gonvick High School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,120
Ms Pulkrabek’s students (many of whom have never been in a metropolitan area) will experience the arts by visiting museums and theaters in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area.
Clearwater
Recipient
Northern Exposure to Lifelong Learning
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
NELL will sponsor a one-day festival of ethnic music.
Clearwater
Recipient
Holdingford Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,225
To provide financial assistance to schools nonprofit organizations and units of government to expose students of all ages to a unique arts experience that ties in to a lesson plan curriculum or a process that builds community.
Stearns
Recipient
Kennedy Community School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,400
To provide financial assistance to schools nonprofit organizations and units of government to expose students of all ages to a unique arts experience that ties in to a lesson plan curriculum or a process that builds community.
Stearns
Recipient
Sartell Middle School
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,000
To provide financial assistance to schools nonprofit organizations and units of government to expose students of all ages to a unique arts experience that ties in to a lesson plan curriculum or a process that builds community.
Stearns
Recipient
Stearns History Museum
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,610
To provide an engineering assessment of the museum's 1983 environmental systems
Stearns
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
Clearwater Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,290
Fund Source

This project will complete a lake data set for 303(d) and Aquatic Recreation use assessments in Clearwater County by monitoring total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a and Secchi depth; by utilizing lakeshore owners.

Clearwater
Recipient
Minnesota Center Chorale
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Granite City Folk Society
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Minnesota Dance Ensemble
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Pioneer Place Theatre Company
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Saint Cloud Municipal Band
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Visual Arts Minnesota
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Wirth Center for the Performing Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,000
To support and assist established central Minnesota arts organizations that demonstrate programming of high artistic quality and efficient management .
Stearns
Recipient
Haehn Museum
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,770
To conserve two pencil/charcoal drawings by influential early 20th-century artist Justina Knapp, OSB
Stearns
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
Recipient
Crown River Organization of Water
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

This project focuses on preventing and reducing sediment related turbidity problems throughout the Crow River Watershed and contains three main tasks; Best Management Practices (BMP's) installation, public outreach and administration.

Meeker
Recipient
North Fork Crow River Watershed District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$33,000
Fund Source

The purpose of this project is reduce peak flows in the North Fork of the Crow River through culvert sizing. Culvert sizing will typically result in smaller culverts, which will provide short-term temporary storage within channels and on adjacent lands upstream from road crossings. In addition to reducing peak flow rates, flood damage and downstream erosion, increased sediment and nutrient removal through extended detention time is expected.

Kandiyohi
Meeker
Pope
Stearns
Recipient
Stearns Soil and Water Conservation District
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$250,000
Fund Source

The Stearns County SWCD Enhanced Shoreline Restoration, Infiltration and Protection Program has accelerated natural resource restoration projects in Stearns County. The project partners are assisting in recruiting landowners to implement shoreline restoration, erosion control and infiltration projects to protect and improve water quality as well as fish and wildlife habitat. We have prioritized projects based on location and impact. The site will be ranked as a higher priority if the it is located near a body of water that has been listed as impaired or has an approved TMDL.

Stearns
Recipient
Multiple Local Government Units
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,234,350
Fund Source

Currently, there are approximately 5,050 feedlots with fewer than 300 animal units that need to come into compliance with State feedlot rules. Clean Water Feedlot Water Quality Management Grant funds are being used to provide financial assistance to landowners with feedlot operations less than 300 animal units in size and located in a riparian area or impaired watershed.

Aitkin
Benton
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Goodhue
Morrison
Renville
Stearns
Waseca
Washington
Winona
Recipient
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$36,000,000
Fund Source

Our program/project will protect and maintain intact forest ecosystems through the use of perpetual conservation easements and other tools. This program/project will directly protect approximately 187, 277 acres of forest and wetlands with permanent conservation easements and 1,344 acres with fee acquisition.

Aitkin
Beltrami
Cass
Clearwater
Itasca
Kanabec
Kanabec
Fund Source

Demolition of former railroad bridge and construction of a new State Trail Bridge over the Sauk River in the City of Richmond.

Stearns
Recipient
City of St. Cloud
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,700

The City of St. Cloud Heritage Preservation Commission (HPC), in partnership with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Minnesota (BBBSCM), developed the “Going Downtown” History Hunt event to demonstrate how historic buildings can be used as excellent tools to teach local history.

Stearns
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Administration
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,420
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$23,314

Per Minnesota Laws, 2009, Chapter 172, Article 4, Section 2, Subd. 5, "Funds in this subdivision are appropriated to the commissioner of the Department of Administration for grants to the named organizations for the purposes specified in this subdivision. Up to one percent of funds may be used by the Department of Administration for grants administration. Grants made to public television or radio organizations are subject to Minnesota Statutes, sections 129D.18 and 129D.19."

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Chippewa
Chisago
Clay
Clearwater
Cook
Cottonwood
Crow Wing
Dakota
Dodge
Douglas
Faribault
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Jackson
Kanabec
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Koochiching
Lac qui Parle
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Le Sueur
Lincoln
Lyon
Mahnomen
Marshall
Martin
McLeod
Meeker
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Murray
Nicollet
Nobles
Norman
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pennington
Pine
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Ramsey
Red Lake
Redwood
Renville
Rice
Rock
Roseau
Scott
Sherburne
Sibley
St. Louis
Statewide
Stearns
Steele
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Traverse
Wabasha
Wadena
Waseca
Washington
Watonwan
Wilkin
Winona
Wright
Yellow Medicine
Recipient
Great River Regional Library
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$483,371
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$405,673

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.

Benton
Morrison
Sherburne
Stearns
Todd
Wright