The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District will implement hazardous fuels reduction, defensible space creation, ecological improvements, and habitat restoration on 100 to 200 acres of land along the Mount Rose Corridor in Nevada. Funded activities under the $801,838 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management include removing dead brush and timber, thinning live brush and timber, eliminating ladder fuels, and restoring aspen stands. Additional work...
The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District will reduce hazardous fuels on 210-620 acres and plan additional hazardous fuels removal on non-federal lands in Incline Village and Crystal Bay, Nevada to mitigate wildfire risk and improve forest health through a $1.8 million cooperative agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region. Funded by the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program, which supports community-based conservation partnerships, the district will...
This $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded on August 23, 2023 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Intermountain Region (Region 4) supports the Nevada Department of Wildlife in implementing the Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscapes program (CFDA 10.724). Key activities to be delivered under this 9-year award include conducting wildlife surveys, habitat restoration, water infrastructure development, and species monitoring to support conservation and public recreation objectives...
The California Tahoe Conservancy and USDA Forest Service will implement a coordinated hazardous fuels reduction strategy in community forests on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin through a $4.3 million cooperative agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region. Under the six-year award beginning August 2022 through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program (CFDA 15.235), the awardees will reduce hazardous fuels on 650-850 acres of small, forested...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,397,000 Formula Grant under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education program (CFDA 15.611) to the Nevada Department of Wildlife. The grant funding will be used to purchase approximately 1,720 acres of land with substantial water rights in the Schell Creek Range of White Pine County, Nevada. This property, which is currently used as a seasonal sheep ranch, provides valuable upland and...
The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District will receive $532,470 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded on December 27, 2022 by the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program (CFDA 15.235). The funding will support a 90-115 acre fuels reduction project along Highway 50 in the Lake Tahoe Basin from 2023 to 2028. Treatments will include thinning and removal of fuels in two areas prone to heavy traffic and near homes to modify potential...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $300,000 Formula Grant under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety Program (CFDA 15.611) to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), Salem Region Office, to improve mule deer habitat in the Deschutes watershed. The key activities to be conducted under this 2-year grant include: Treatment of western juniper to release shrub and other forage components;...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $845,500 Project Grant under the State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program (CFDA 10.697) to the Nevada Division of Forestry. The award, made on July 11, 2024, supports the Division's efforts to mitigate wildfire risks across non-federal lands in Nevada through hazardous fuel reduction, prescribed burning, and vegetation management activities. The program aims to create fire-resilient landscapes and fire-adapted...
This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $717,512, was provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) federal grant program. The award supports a collaborative effort between the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) and federal, state, and private partners to conserve the sagebrush ecosystem in Nevada. Key activities to be delivered under this agreement include: Protecting sagebrush habitats from the spread of invasive...
The Nevada Department of Wildlife will receive $200,000 through a Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station. The grant funding supports the official federal Forest Health Protection program (CFDA 10.680) and will allow the Department of Wildlife to provide services to protect and manage non-federal forest resources in Nevada from September 2022 through September 2027. Specifically, the Department will work to...