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Recipient
Minnesota State University-Mankato
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$260,000
Fund Source

MSU-Mankato Water Resources Center in the Mankato area will provide conventional pollutant monitoring at the following sites: Beauford Ditch, Big Cobb River, Blue Earth River, Le Sueur River (3), Little Cobb River, Minnesota River (2), Watonwan River.

Blue Earth
Brown
Cottonwood
Faribault
Freeborn
Jackson
Le Sueur
Martin
Steele
Waseca
Watonwan
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
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
DNR
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$5,748,000
Fund Source

This program will permanently protect approximately 1,246 acres (8.9-miles) of lake and warm water stream shoreline through fee title and permanent easement acquisition. Our program will also secure 54 Acres (3.1-miles) of permanent habitat management easements that include angler access on designated trout streams.

Becker
Beltrami
Cass
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Hubbard
Lake
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
St. Louis
St. Louis
Recipient
Shelley M. Tougas
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$4,500
For writing time to complete a revision of a young adult novel with a specific focus on character development.
Nicollet
Recipient
Chatfield Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85
Eighth grade art-in-3D exercises with artist Jackie Braze
Fillmore
Recipient
Commonweal Theatre Company
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,000
Pilot program "Commonweal Presents"
Fillmore
Recipient
Dreamery Rural Arts Initiative AKA Flourish Summer Camp
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,000
Performance series "Play In the Barn"
Fillmore
Recipient
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$6,400
Stringwood festival concerts and masterclass
Fillmore
Recipient
Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$560
Stringwood summer chamber music camp for middle and high school students
Fillmore
Recipient
Lanesboro Arts Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$12,000
Pilot project involving educational workshops on iron casting and sculpture
Fillmore
Recipient
Rushford-Peterson Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$415
History in Song with musician Elisa Korenne
Fillmore
Recipient
Southeast Minnesota Bluegrass Association
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,055
Pilot program - jazz camp
Fillmore
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$24,700
"Stories from Yesterday and Today: Continuing the Circle of Life" - A Center for the Arts, Kaddatz Galleries, and Otter Tail County Historical Society bring storytelling into senior centers while gathering stories from seniors to share with community and family.
Otter Tail
Recipient
Commonweal Theatre Company
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$26,406
The Commonweal Theatre Company requests support for a 2011 Minnesota tour of Henrik Ibsen's timeless play, An Enemy of the People, to share our affinity and knowledge of "the father of modern drama" with underserved audiences.
Fillmore
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$99,000
A Center for the Arts is putting forth a proposal that suggests we are both a host for professional companies (some with and some without touring experience) as well as the tour manager to take these professional opportunities (in music, theater and dance) into other communities within a 70 mile radius of Fergus Falls.
Otter Tail
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$32,000
The Circle of Life is a two-year project involving all facets of the community in lifelong learning through music, theater, movement, and puppetry - working with Ghaian dancer/drummer Francis Kofi, and artists Esther Ouray and Julie Kastigar.
Otter Tail
Recipient
Minnesota Land Trust
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$500,000
Fund Source

This program will protect 300-500 acres of land in the blufflands region of southeastern Minnesota--an area that contains unique and ecologically important prairie, oak savanna and grassland habitat along with outstanding forested bluffs, woodlands, wetlands and cold water trout streams along the Mississippi River.

Fillmore
Goodhue
Goodhue
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
MN Trout Unlimited
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,050,000
Fund Source

This program will restore and enhance in-stream and riparian fish and wildlife habitat in 11 watersheds across the state of Minnesota. The proposed projects will improve habitat for both game and non-game fish and wildlife species uniquely associated with cold water trout streams and provide expanded recreational opportunities for Minnesota anglers.

Becker
Benton
Dakota
Fillmore
Goodhue
Hubbard
Olmsted
St. Louis
St. Louis
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
Friends of the History Museum of East Otter Tail County
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,800
To hire a historian to evaluate the Church of St. Stanislaus in Perham for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
Otter Tail
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
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
National Wild Turkey Federation
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$85,000

Overall Project Outcome and Results
This project contained two types of habitat enhancement that resulted in the enhancement of a total of 72 acres of habitat.

Cottonwood
Fillmore
Goodhue
Houston
Jackson
Recipient
Commonweal Theatre Company
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$27,961
General operating support
Fillmore
Recipient
New York Mills Arts Retreat AKA New York Mills Regional Cultural Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$14,867
General operating support
Otter Tail
Recipient
Lanesboro Arts Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$18,729
General operating support
Fillmore
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,014
General operating support
Otter Tail
Recipient
St. James, City of
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,446,213
Fund Source

Construct wastewater treatment improvements to meet TMDL wasteload requirement

Watonwan
Recipient
AECOM, Inc.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$35,000
Fund Source

Phase 4 of the Lake Winona Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) project will finalize the draft Lake Winona TMDL, dated November 2009, by completing additional data analysis, lake quality modeling, updating the TMDL report, and supporting the public involvement process.

Cass
Douglas
Morrison
Otter Tail
Todd
Recipient
Battle Lake Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,900
For high school art students to participate in hands on workshops with professional artists
Otter Tail
Recipient
Battle Lake Public Schools
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,440
For a studen field trip to Twin Cities art museums
Otter Tail
Recipient
Fergus Falls Center for the Arts AKA A Center for the Arts
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$17,800
To expand community theater program
Otter Tail
Recipient
Kaddatz Galleries, Ltd.
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$20,800
To create a touring art trunk show and workshop for seniors
Otter Tail
Recipient
New York Mills Arts Retreat AKA New York Mills Regional Cultural Center
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$1,950
To design and create a puppet pageant
Otter Tail
Recipient
Sons of Norway
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,300
To present Lindesnes Accordian Band concert
Otter Tail
Recipient
Joseph J. Hjelmstad
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,050
To purchase a new kiln wheel supplies and teach workshops
Otter Tail
Recipient
Elisa A. Korentayer AKA Elisa Korenne
2010 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$2,000
To tour a one hour show "Oy Vey" is Jewish for "Uff-dah"
Otter Tail