Minnesota Legislature
FY 2015 LSOHC Requests Received
The below funding requests were considered by the council for recommendation to the 2013 legislature. The council received 56 requests totaling over $269 million.
| Proposal | Title | Project Manager | Organization | Requested Amount |
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| Prairie Acquisition |
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| P A 01 | DNR Wildlife Management Area and Scientific & Natural Area Acquisition --Phase VI | Pat Rivers | DNR | $7,092,000 |
| P A 02 | Accelerating the Wildlife Management Area Program - Phase VI | Joe Pavelko | Pheasants Forever | $15,250,000 |
| P A 03 | Prairie Recovery Project --Phase V | Neal Feeken | The Nature Conservancy | $5,107,700 |
| P A 04 | Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge Land Acquisition --Phase V | Rich Johnson | The Nature Conservancy | $2,451,200 |
| P A 05 | Cannon River Headwaters Habitat Complex Phase IV | Bob McGillvray | Trust for Public Land | $2,000,000 |
| P A 06 | Accelerated protection of grassland and prairie habitat with (RIM) and (NPB) easements | Jason Garms | DNR | $40,000,000 |
| P A 07 | Minnesota Buffers for Wildlife and Water --Phase IV | Tabor Hoek | BWSR | $5,000,000 |
| P A 08 | Green Corridor Legacy Program -- Phase V | Brad Cobb | Green Corridors | $3,741,000 |
| Prairie Restore / Enhance |
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| P RE 01 | DNR Grassland Phase 6 | Mike Tenney | MN DNR | $2,942,000 |
| P RE 02 | Anoka Sandplain Habitat Restoration and Enhancement -- Phase III | Wayne Ostlie | Great River Greening | $1,996,000 |
| P RE 03 | Wirth Park Habitat Enhancements | Jennifer Ringold | Minneapolis Park Board | $865,000 |
| P RE 04 | Crow-Hassan Prairie Complex Restoration and Enhancement | John Moriarity | Three Rivers Park District | $536,000 |
| P RE 05 | Praire and Oak Savanna Restoration along Mississippi and Rum Rivers | Karen Blaska | Anoka County | $470,000 |
| Forest Acquisition |
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| F A 01 | Dynamic Forest Conservation | George Fenwick | American Bird Conservancy | $4,241,800 |
| F A 02 | Preventing Forest Fragmentation and Protecting and Restoring Lake and Stream Habitat in the St. Louis River Watershed | Thomas Howes | Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa | $2,924,000 |
| F A 03 | Camp Ripley ACUB...Protecting one of the last great places in Minnesota --Phase IV | Helen McLennan | Morrison SWCD | $3,501,600 |
| F A 04 | Northeastern Minnesota Sharp-tailed Grouse Habitat Partnership --Phase V | Ward Julien | MN Sharp-tailed Grouse Society | $5,848,000 |
| F A 05 | Protecting Pinelands Sands Aquifer Forestlands and Aquatic Habitat Phase 1 | Richard Peterson | DNR | $4,268,600 |
| F A 06 | Protect (Acquire) Key Forest Habitat Lands in Cass County, Phase 5 | Joshua Stevenson | Cass County | $2,027,600 |
| F A 07 | State Forest Acquisitions Phase II- RJ Dorer Memorial Hardwoods State Forest Land Asset Project | Dave Schuller | DNR | $3,000,000 |
| F A 08 | Southeast Minnesota Protection and Restoration -- Phase II | Richard Biske | The Nature Conservancy | $7,819,000 |
| Forest Restore / Enhance |
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| F RE 01 | Big Woods Habitat Corridors in Scott County | Patricia Freeman | Scott County | $1,840,100 |
| F RE 02 | Floodplain Forest Enhancement - Mississippi River | Tim Schlagenhaft | Audubon Society | $655,000 |
| Wetland Acquisition |
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| W A 01 | The RIM-WRP Partnership: Phase 6 | Tim Koehler | BWSR | $17,550,000 |
| W A 02 | Accelerating the Waterfowl Production Area Program - Phase VI | Joe Pavelko | Pheasants Forever | $12,350,000 |
| W A 03 | Wild Rice Shoreland Protection Phase III | Dan Stewart | BWSR | $2,775,100 |
| Wetland Restore / Enhance |
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| W RE 01 | Accelerated Shallow Lakes and Wetland Enhancement -- Phase VI | Ricky Lien | DNR | $2,250,000 |
| W RE 02 | Living Shallow Lakes & Wetlands Initiative -- Phase IV | Jon Schneider | Ducks Unlimited | $6,000,000 |
| Habitat Acquisition |
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| H A 01 | DNR Aquatic Habitat Program, Phase 6 | Brian Nerbonne | MN DNR | $5,450,000 |
| H A 02 | Metro Big Rivers Habitat Phase 4 | Deborah Loon | Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge Trust, Inc. | $3,689,000 |
| H A 03 | Vermillion River WMA Acquisition | Pat Rivers | MN DNR | $6,452,800 |
| H A 04 | Fisheries Habitat Protection on Strategic North Central Minnesota Lakes | Paula West | Leech Lake Watershed Foundation | $8,392,800 |
| H A 05 | 3,500-foot Shoreland Acquisition on the St. Croix River | Jane Harper | Washington County | $2,500,000 |
| H A 06 | Habitat Protection/Restoration in Dakota County --Phase V | Al Singer | Dakota County | $1,550,000 |
| H A 07 | Mustinka River Fish and Wildlife Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation | Joe Roeschlein | Bois de Sioux Watershed District | $4,580,900 |
| Habitat Restore / Enhance |
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| H RE 01 | Minnesota Trout Unlimited Coldwater Fish Habitat Enhancement & Restoration --Phase VI | John Lenczewski | Minnesota Trout Unlimited | $ 2,600,000 |
| H RE 02 | St. Louis River Restoration Initiative --Phase II | John Lindgren | MN DNR | $ 3,221,400 |
| H RE 03 | Duluth 2012 Flood: Stream Habitat Restoration Program | Kate Kubiak | South St. Louis County SWCD | $5,667,500 |
| H RE 04 | Knife River Habitat Rehabilitation -- Phase II | Scott Kuiti | Lake Superior Steelhead Assoc. | $1,499,000 |
| H RE 05 | Wildlife and Fishery Habitat Restoration and Enhancement -Metro Region | Arne Stefferud | Metropolitan Council | $6,416,100 |
| H RE 06 | Washington County's Last Best Places | Peter Mott | Washington County | $775,000 |
| H RE 07 | Grey Cloud Slough Habitat Restoration | John Loomis | South Washington Watershed District | $452,000 |
| H RE 08 | Lake Nokomis Habitat Enhancements | Jennifer Ringold | Minneapolis Park Board | $604,000 |
| H RE 09 | Lake Independence Fish Habitat Improvement Project | John Barten | Three Rivers Park District | $510,000 |
| H RE 10 | Northwest Bluffs | Michael Goodnature | Ramsey County Parks and Recreation | $468,000 |
| H RE 11 | Habitat Enhancement in the Sauk Lake Watershed | Vicki Willer | City of Saulk Center | $115,500 |
| H RE - NEW | Cleary Lake Habitat Restoration Project | John Barten | Three Rivers Park District | $400,000 |
| Habitat - Aquatic Invasive Species |
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| H AIS 01 | A Permanent Program to Sustainably Control AIS While Restoring Ecosystems | Peter Sorensen | MN AIS Research Center | $5,500,000 |
| H AIS 02 | Protect Aquatic Habitat from Asian Carp | Nick Frohnauer | MN DNR | $6,500,000 |
| H AIS 03 | Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Management Program | Craig Dawson | Minnehaha Creek Watershed District | $2,070,000 |
| H AIS 04 | Statewide AIS Facilities and Equipment | Joe Shneider | MN COLA | $25,182,900 |
| H AIS 05 | Invasive Species Net Duplication | Jeff Riedmann | MN Commercial Fisherman's Assoc. | $912,500 |
| Other |
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| CPL 1 | Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program, Phase 5 | Jessica Lee | MN Dept of Natural Resources | $5,000,000 |
| CPL 2 | Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program Metro Grant Program | Jessica Lee | MN Dept of Natural Resources | $5,000,000 |
| O 1 | Contract Management | Amanda Graeber | MN Dept of Natural Resources | $175,000 |
| O 2 | Restoration Evaluations Program, Phase 4 | Wade Johnson | MN Dept of Natural Resources | $100,000 |