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FY 2016 LSOHC Funding Requests Received

The below funding requests were considered by the council for recommendation to the 2015 legislature. The council received 46 requests totaling over $221 million.

Proposal Title Project Manager Organization Requested Amount

Prairie Acquisition
P A 01 DNR WMA and SNA Acquisition, Phase 7 Pat Rivers DNR $9,548,000
P A 02 Accelerating the Wildlife Management Area Program - Phase 7 Joe Pavelko Pheasants Forever $18,409,000
P A 03 MN Prairie Recovery Project - Phase 6 Neal Feeken The Nature Conservancy $4,147,300
P A 04 Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge Land Acquisition, Phase 6 Rich Johnson The Nature Conservancy $6,000,000
P A 05 Cannon River Watershed Habitat Complex Phase V Danielle Salus Trust for Public Land $2,000,000
P A 06 Accelerated Native Prairie Bank Protection Jason Garms DNR $9,887,000
P A 07 Minnesota Buffers for Wildlife and Water --Phase V Tabor Hoek BWSR $12,000,000
P A 08 Prairie Chicken Habitat Partnership of the Southern Red River Valley Joe Pavelko MN Prairie Chicken Society / Pheasants Forever, Inc. $7,064,000
P A 09 SW MN Riparian Woodland Habitat Protection - Phase I Mark Johnson MN Deer Hunters Association $5,086,500
P A 10 Protecting and Restoring Minnesota's Important Birds Areas Mark Martell Audubon Minnesota $6,209,000
P A 11 Lower Wild Rice River Corridor Habitat Restoration -- Phase 1 Kevin Ruud Wild Rice River Watershed District $6,420,000

Prairie Restore / Enhance
P RE 01 DNR Grassland Phase 7 Mike Tenney MN DNR $13,640,700
P RE 02 Enhanced Public Land - Grasslands Phase II Eran Sandquist Pheasants Forever $2,130,000

Forest Acquisition
F A 01 Young Forest Conservation: Integrated Wildlife Management (Phase II) George Fenwick American Bird Conservancy $2,863,300
F A 02 Protecting Forest Wildlife Habitat in the Wild Rice River Watershed Lorena Vogt White Earth Nation $2,188,000
F A 03 Camp Ripley ACUB Phase 5 - Buffering the Gull River WMA and protecting Mississippi/Crow Wing River forested areas. Helen McLennan Morrison SWCD $3,000,000
F A 04 Southeast Minnesota Protection and Restoration Phase III Richard Biske The Nature Conservancy $4,967,400
F A 05 Protecting Pinelands Sands Forest and Aquatic Habitat Phase 2 Richard Peterson DNR $4,260,000
F A 06 Protect (Acquire) Key Forest Habitat Lands Cass County 6 Joshua Stevenson Cass County $1,710,000
F A 07 State Forest Acquisition Phase 3 - Protecting Forest Habitat in the Richard J. Dorer Memorial Forest Dave Schuller DNR $4,020,000
F A 08 Critical Shoreland Habitat Protection Program: Phase 3 John Brosnan Minnesota Land Trust $1,920,000
F A 09 Mississippi Headwaters Habitat Partnership Robert McGillivray The Trust for Public Land $4,685,000

Forest Restore / Enhance
F RE 01 Southeast forest habitat enhancement Bryan Lueth MN DNR Wildlife $949,000

Wetland Acquisition
W A 01 Accelerating the Waterfowl Production Area Program - Phase 7 Joe Pavelko Pheasants Forever $16,528,000
W A 02 Shallow Lake & Wetland Protection Program - Phase IV Jon Schneider Ducks Unlimited $16,000,000
W A 03 Wild Rice Shoreland Protection Phase IV Dan Stewart BWSR $2,494,800

Wetland Restore / Enhance
W RE 01 Accelerated Shallow Lakes and Wetland Enhancement, Phase 7 Ricky Lien DNR $4,005,000
W RE 02 Lake Flora Wetland Trail Project Aaron Wittnebal City of Lake Park $1,260,000

Habitat Acquisition
H A 01 Aquatic Habitat Protection, Restoration, and Enhancement, Phase 7 Martin Jennings MN DNR $12,948,000
H A 02 Metro Big Rivers Partnership Phase 6 Deborah Loon Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc. $3,678,900
H A 03 Access to Isolated State Lands for Habitat Management Susan E. Damon MN DNR $2,021,000
H A 04 Elk River Mississippi Natural Area Steve Hobbs The Conservation Fund $3,128,000

Habitat Restore / Enhance
H RE 01 Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement & Restoration --Phase VI John Lenczewski Minnesota Trout Unlimited $ 2,130,000
H RE 02 Lake Bemidji South Shore Restoration and Enhancement John Chattin City of Bemidji $ 1,650,000
H RE 03 Biological Control of Invasive Plants Monika Chandler MN Department of Agriculture $ 453,500
H RE 04 Sand Hill River Fish Passage Daniel Wilkens Sand Hill River Watershed District $ 1,666,800
H RE 05 Sargent Creek Streambank Stabilization for Aquatic Habitat and Restoration Chris Kleist City of Duluth $ 640,000
H RE 06 Shell Rock River Watershed Habitat Restoration Program Andy Henschel Shell Rock River Watershed District $ 4,213,500
H RE 07 Lake Nokomis Integrated Habitat Enhancements Adam Arvidson Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board $744,300
H RE 08 Indian Beach Harbor Ecological Enhancement Mission Margaret Johnson Middle Fork Crow River Watershed District $40,000
H RE 09 White Bear Lake James Markoe White Bear Lake Homeowners Association, Inc. $236,000

Other
CPL 1 Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program, Phase 5 Jessica Lee MN Dept of Natural Resources $5,555,000
CPL 2 Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program Metro Grant Program Jessica Lee MN Dept of Natural Resources $5,065,500
O 1 Contract Management Amanda Graeber MN Dept of Natural Resources $150,000
O 2 Restoration Evaluations Program, Phase 5 Wade Johnson MN Dept of Natural Resources $100,000