Minnesota Legislature
FY 2023 LSOHC Funding Requests Received
The funding requests below will be considered by the council for recommendation to the 2022 legislature. The council received 50 requests totaling over $314 million.
| Proposal | Title | Project Manager | Organization | Requested Amount |
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| Prairie Acquisition |
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| PA 01 | Accelerating the Wildlife Management Area Program - Phase XIV | Eran Sandquist | Pheasants Forever, Inc. | $13,852,300 |
| PA 02 | RIM Grasslands Reserve Phase IV | John Voz | BWSR | $9,000,000 |
| PA 03 | Prairie Chicken Habitat Partnership of the Southern Red River Valley - Phase VIII | Sabin Adams | MN Prairie Chicken Society / Pheasants Forever, Inc. | $9,857,000 |
| PA 04 | MN Prairie Recovery Program Phase 12 | Neal Feeken | The Nature Conservancy | $10,100,000 |
| PA 05 | Enhanced Public Land - Open Landscapes - Phase II | Sabin Adams | Minnesota Sharp-Tailed Grouse Society/Pheasants Forever, Inc. | $4,353,400 |
| PA 06 | RIM Buffers for Wildlife and Water - Phase X | Dusty Van Thuyne | BWSR | $10,000,000 |
| PA 07 | Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, Phase XIII | Ruth Thornton | The Nature Conservancy | $6,584,100 |
| PA 08 | Martin County DNR WMA Phase 6 | Doug Hartke | Fox Lake Conservation League, Inc. | $6,803,600 |
| Prairie Restore / Enhance |
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| PRE 01 | DNR Grassland Enhancement - Phase 14 | Greg Hoch | MN DNR | $10,396,700 |
| Forest Acquisition |
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| FA 01 | Preventing Forest Fragmentation and Protecting Wildlife Habitat at the Edge of the Boundary Waters | Chris Knopf | Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness | $1,805,000 | FA 02 | Minnesota Forest Recovery Project: Phase II | Jim Manolis | The Nature Conservancy | $9,579,900 | FA 03 | 2022 Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape ACUB Phase X | Shannon Wettstein | Morrison SWCD | $8,450,000 | FA 04 | Minnesota Forests for the Future Phase IX | Christine Ostern | MN DNR | $3,919,900 | FA 05 | Big Woods Protection at Stieg Woods | Michael Bauer | City of Rogers | $1,108,000 |
| Forest Restore / Enhance |
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| FRE 01 | DNR Forest Enhancement Phase 2 | Greg Hoch | MN DNR | $4,339,700 |
| Wetland Acquisition |
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| WA 01 | Accelerating the Waterfowl Production Area Program - Phase XIV | Eran Sandquist | Pheasants Forever, Inc. | $11,929,000 |
| WA 02 | Wetland Habitat Protection and Restoration Program - Phase 7 | Wayne Ostlie | Minnesota Land Trust | $6,629,000 |
| WA 03 | Wild Rice Shoreland Protection - Phase VIII | Dan Steward | BWSR | $2,000,000 |
| WA 04 | Shallow Lake & Wetland Protection & Restoration Program - Phase XI | Jon Schneider | Ducks Unlimited | $9,960,000 |
| WA 05 | RIM Wetlands - Restoring the most productive habitat in Minnesota's Prairie Pothole Region | John Voz | BWSR | $10,000,000 |
| Wetland Restore / Enhance |
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| WRE 01 | Living Shallow Lake Enhancement & Wetland Restoration Initiative - Phase VIII | Jon Schneider | Ducks Unlimited | $12,940,000 |
| WRE 02 | DNR Accelerated Shallow Lakes and Wetland Enhancements Phase 14 | Ricky Lien | MN DNR | $4,102,000 |
| Habitat Acquisition |
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| HA 01 | Elm Creek Greenway Corridor Proposed Property Acquisitions | Charles Lehn | City of Champlin | $1,495,000 |
| HA 02 | Dakota County Habitat Protection/Restoration Phase VIII | Lisa West | Dakota County | $8,100,000 |
| HA 03 | Integrating Habitat and Clean Water | Bill Penning | BWSR | $5,000,000 |
| HA 04 | Protecting Coldwater Fisheries on Minnesota's North Shore - Phase 2 | Wayne Ostlie | Minnesota Land Trust | $4,391,000 |
| HA 05 | Southeast Minnesota Protection and Restoration Phase 10 | Robert McGillivray | The Trust for Public Land | $11,680,400 |
| HA 06 | Mississippi Headwaters Habitat Corridor Project Phase 7 | Tim Terrill | Mississippi Headwaters Board | $9,591,400 |
| HA 07 | Shell Rock River Watershed Habitat Restoration Program - Phase XI | Courtney Phillips | Shell Rock River Watershed District | $3,604,600 |
| HA 08 | DNR WMA and SNA Acquisition, Ph. 14 | Jay Johnson | MN DNR | $3,250,000 |
| HA 09 | Cannon River Watershed Habitat Protection and Restoration Program - Phase 11 | Kristi Pursell | Clean River Partners (formerly Cannon River Watershed Partnership) | $5,563,200 |
| HA 10 | Washington County Habitat Protection and Restoration Partnership | June Mathiowetz | Washington County | $6,126,000 |
| HA 11 | 2022 Metro Big Rivers Phase 12 | Deborah Loon | MN Valley Trust (Metro Big Rivers) | $13,822,400 |
| HA 12 | St. Croix Watershed Habitat Protection and Restoration Phase 3 | Monica Zachay | St. Croix River Association | $6,658,700 |
| HA 13 | Fisheries Habitat Protection on Strategic North Central Minnesota Lakes - Phase VIII | Annie Johnson | Northern Waters Land Trust | $9,166,000 |
| HA 14 | Sauk River Watershed Habitat Protection & Restoration, Phase 4 | Sarah Boser | Sauk River Watershed District | $8,685,000 | Habitat Restore / Enhance |
| HRE 01 | Lime Lake and Lake Sarah Dam Replacements | Jean Christoffels | Murray County | $1,420,400 |
| HRE 02 | DNR Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement - Phase 5 | Jamison Wendel | MN DNR | $10,092,300 |
| HRE 03 | Klondike Clean Water Retention Project part 2 | Dan Money | Two Rivers Watershed District | $1,350,000 |
| HRE 04 | Buffalo River Watershed Stream Habitat Program - Phase 2 | Kristine Altrichter | Buffalo-Red River Watershed District | $4,951,000 |
| HRE 05 | DNR St. Louis River Restoration Initiative Ph. 9 | Melissa Sjolund | MN DNR | $6,990,000 |
| HRE 06 | East Lake Habitat Improvement Plan | McKenzie Cafferty | City of Lakeville | $480,000 |
| HRE 07 | DNR Fish Passage Enhancement through Targeted Culvert Replacement - Phase 1 | Jamison Wendel | MN DNR | $1,605,300 |
| HRE 08 | Restoring and Enhancing Minnesota's Important Bird Areas, Phase 3 | Alexandra Wardwell | Audubon Minnesota | $3,392,800 |
| HRE 09 | Knife River Habitat Rehabilitation-Phase VII | Tony Cuneo (ZG) and Kevin J. Bovee (LSSA) | Zeitgeist (ZG) and Lake Superior Steelhead Association (LSSA) | $990,000 |
| HRE 10 | Enhancing Metro and North Shore Trout Stream Habitats | John Lenczewski | Minnesota Trout Unlimited | $1,990,000 |
| HRE 11 | Daylighting Phalen Creek | Samuel Wegner | Lower Phalen Creek Project | $6,338,000 |
| Other |
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| O1 | Restoration Evaluations - ML 2022 | Wade Johnson | MN DNR | $200,000 |
| O2 | Contract Management 2022 | Katherine Sherman-Hoehn | MN DNR | $300,000 |
| CPL | Conservation Partners Legacy Grant Program Ph. 14: Statewide and Metro Habitat | Kathy Varble | MN DNR | $9,450,000 |
| Total: $314,393,100 |