County Of Beaverhead

County Of Beaverhead Beaverhead Conservation District Division, doing business as Beaver Head Conservation DST, is a local government conservation district—a child entity of the County of Beaverhead—based in Dillon, Montana, that operates as a prime recipient of federal cooperative agreements and grants focused on ecosystem and watershed management in southwest Montana, with secondary activity as a sub-recipient under larger federal grant programs.

The vendor's federal footprint is dominated by cooperative agreements from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (Montana-Dakotas Region). Top customers by award count account for 85% of recent activity and include the BLM (3 awards), the Bureau of Reclamation (3 awards), the Forest Service (2 awards), and the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 (2 awards). Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.4 million. The vendor operates exclusively in federal grants and cooperative agreements; it holds no contracts or IDV vehicles.

As a prime recipient, Beaver Head Conservation DST has executed two active cooperative agreements with the BLM Montana-Dakotas Region. The more recent award, dated September 24, 2025, focuses on management of invasive annual plants—primarily invasive annual grasses—on public lands across four southwest Montana watersheds (Medicine Lodge Creek, Big Sheep Creek, Sage Creek, and Blacktail Deer Creek). The agreement runs through September 23, 2030 and aims to deepen inventory and chemical treatment efforts within high-priority sagebrush ecosystems to support BLM's mission of sustaining the health and productivity of public lands for livestock grazing, hunting, and wildlife populations including mule deer, elk, pronghorn, and sage grouse. A second cooperative agreement, dated September 15, 2023 and running through September 14, 2028, targets watershed health and multi-stakeholder collaboration across BLM-designated focal landscape areas in the Dillon Field Office, combining riparian and wetland treatments, instream restoration using low-tech process-based techniques, and infrastructure projects including stream crossings and spring development to address climate resilience under Executive Order 14008.

Beaver Head Conservation DST also acts as a sub-recipient under multiple federal grant programs. Recent sub-awards include roles under The Nature Conservancy's invasive annual grass control program (November 2025), the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services' WIC program (October 2025), Pheasants Forever's Southwest Montana Sagebrush Partnership Invasive Annual Grasses Coordinator position (October 2025), and prior sub-awards for PHEP funding (July 2024) and an invasive annual grass coordinator role (September 2023). Activity has concentrated in 2025, with four awards in the past year, following sparse activity in 2023 and 2024 and earlier baseline work spanning 2016–2017.