Federal Formula Grant Award Summary

The Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station (NAES) received $144,502 in formula grant funding from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program (CFDA 10.202) for the period of October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027. This award supports forestry research addressing Nevada's critical environmental management needs, with a primary focus on developing fundamental understanding of ecosystem responses to environmental change in order to inform climate-adaptive and fire-resilient management practices for forests and rangelands throughout the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada regions.

Under this award, NAES will conduct multiple coordinated research initiatives, including studies to understand and forecast how climatic changes alter woodland distribution and abundance using remote sensing and tree-ring analysis; collaborative landscape-level restoration planning in pinyon-juniper woodlands with the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station; mapping of wildland fuels across multiple scales; measurement of forest fuel reduction effects on carbon and nitrogen stocks in Sierra Nevada forests; and investigation of environmental relationships underlying wood formation in trees. These research activities directly support the McIntire-Stennis Program's overarching goals of increasing forestry research in forest production, utilization, and protection while training future forestry scientists.