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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 259212" data-attributes="member: 605">Ducks Unlimited ran two ballot measures for the 5% oil revenue rip off. They wanted about $100 million a year. The first one ended with the Fargo football player fiasco and the second failed 20% yeas to 80% nays. The State executive branch under Dahlpimple said let's compromise and give them $10 million per year. City orgs, farm orgs said OK. When the Outdoor Heritage Fund Bill got introduced it was mysteriously $15 million. Oh well. Everyone testified in favor. When that was done the wildlife industry reps tried to amend it back to $100 million. That failed. They then tried an end around with a concurrent resolution where-by the legislature would put it on the ballot for them so they wouldn't have to go through the hassle of collecting signatures again. So now we have an Outdoor Heritage Fund where persons/orgs can submit proposals for the peoples money in the form of a grant. The last batch of submissions:<a href="http://www.nd.gov/ndic/out-agenda181203.html" target="_blank">http://www.nd.gov/ndic/out-agenda181203.html</a><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td>II.   Consideration of December 3, 2018 agenda (additions/deletions) - Jim Melchior </td></tr><tr><td>III.   Consideration of August 27, 2018  meeting minutes (<a href="http://www.nd.gov/ndic/out/meet181203/Attachment%20A.pdf" target="_blank">Attachment A</a>) </td></tr><tr><td>IV.   Outdoor Heritage Fund (OHF) Financial Report (<a href="http://www.nd.gov/ndic/out/meet181203/Attachment%20B.pdf" target="_blank">Attachment B</a>)  - Karlene Fine </td></tr><tr><td>V.    Administrative Discussion - Jim Melchior, Andrea Pfennig</td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td>(Approximately 9:00 a.m.) </td></tr><tr><td>VI.    Presentations: </td></tr><tr><td>    1.   13-09 (C) ND Natural Resources Trust: Dakota Skipper Habitat Restoration/Enhancement Partnership, $897,250 </td></tr><tr><td>    2.   13-11 (C) ND Natural Resources Trust: ND Grassland Restoration Project, $104,500 </td></tr><tr><td>    3.   13-16 (C) Hettinger County Water Resource Board: Karey Dam Rehabilitation Project, $180,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    4.   13-17 (C) Benson County Water Resource Board: Bouret Dam Rehabilitation Project, $98,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    5.   13-13 (D) Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation: Rough Rider Adventure Park, $430,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    6.   13-15 (D) City of Dickinson: Crooked Crane Trail Phase 2, $1,200,000 </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td>(Approximately 10:20 a.m.)</td></tr><tr><td>Break (15 minutes)</td></tr><tr><td>(Approximately 10:35 a.m.)</td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td>    7.   13-14 (D) United Prairie: Prairie to the People, $51,628 </td></tr><tr><td>    8.   13-06 (D) Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa: Sky Chief Park Fishing Dock Project, $74,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    9.   13-07 (D)Hunter Arthur Joint Park Board JPA, Northern Cass Pass $103,125 </td></tr><tr><td>    10.  13-01 (D) Bottineau County: Lake Metigoshe Narrows Improvements, $143,561 </td></tr><tr><td>    11.   13-02 (D) Devils Lake Park District: Creel Bay Dock & Boat Slip, $55,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    12.   13-18 (D) LaMoure Lions: Sunset Park Revitalization Project, $10,000 </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td>(Approximately 12:00 p.m.) </td></tr><tr><td>Break for Lunch (30 minutes)</td></tr><tr><td>(Approximately 12:30 p.m.)</td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td>    13.   13-08 (A) Tri-Cities JDA: Schatz Point Fishing Pier, $42,500 </td></tr><tr><td>    14.   13-12 (A) City of Powers Lake: Powers Lake Pier Improvement, $120,046 </td></tr><tr><td>    15.   13-03 (B) Steele County WRD: Lake Tobiason Improvements, $86,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    16.   13-04 (B) Pheasants Forever: North Central Soil Health & Habitat, $52,500 </td></tr><tr><td>    17.   13-05 (B) Walsh County 3 Rivers SCD: Walsh Windbreak Initiative (WWI), $135,000 </td></tr><tr><td>    18.   13-10 (B) Ducks Unlimited: Cover Crop & Livestock Integration Project II, $1,250,790 </td></tr><tr><td>    19.   13-19 (B) Audubon Dakota: Central Coteau Prairie Management Toolbox, $669,175 A presenter has a few minutes for the pitch almost like shark tank. I have only attended one OHF meeting years ago and some of the proposals back then were pretty sketchy, nothing to do with conservation. Like I said, some of the proposals were just long winded and bad. At break, a guy from Game and Fish sat by me and asked what am I doing here? I had a dental appointment with an hour to kill. He said tell you what, let's trade places. You sit here and listen to this, I'll climb in your dental chair and get a fucking root canal. They do two to three batches of applications per year. I think the ones listed above and below qualified: <a href="http://www.nd.gov/ndic/ohf-applications.html" target="_blank">http://www.nd.gov/ndic/ohf-applications.html</a> </td></tr></table></blockquote>

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