The statewide greater sage-grouse program grant allows the nevada department of wildlife to monitor, manage, and conduct investigations and analyses on sage-grouse across nevada

The Nevada Department of Wildlife received a Formula Grant totaling $918,838 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. This grant funds the Statewide Greater Sage-Grouse Program, which provides comprehensive monitoring, management, and scientific investigation of sage-grouse populations across Nevada. The funding supports six distinct program categories focused on conservation objectives for the species.

The grant enables the Nevada Department of Wildlife to deliver specialized products and services including monitoring conservation progress within the Bi-State Greater Sage-Grouse Distinct Population Segment, estimating the effects of mineral development on sage-grouse, conducting survey and inventory work, providing project administration and coordination, supporting state and local conservation planning and implementation efforts, and contributing to range-wide sage-grouse technical support initiatives. These activities align with the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act's mandate to restore, conserve, manage, and enhance wild birds and mammals and their habitats through state fish and wildlife agency leadership.

Sage-grouse are the single species covered under the scope of this funding, which provides opportunity to partition grant resources across different categories and allow funding allocation to be directed to meet conservation objectives for sage-grouse. This grant is currently separated into six categories: monitoring conservation progress within the BI-state greater sage-grouse distinct population segment, estimating the effects of mineral development on greater sage-grouse, nevada greater sage-grouse conservation project administration and coordination, greater sage-grouse survey and inventory, state and local conservation planning and implementation and range-wide sage-grouse technical support.