Nevada Division Of Forestry

The Nevada Division of Forestry, a child entity of the State of Nevada operating under the Nevada Governor's Office of Energy, receives federal grants as a state government recipient (100% of recent awards) to deliver hazardous fuels reduction, community wildfire defense, forest health management, and native plant propagation services on non-federal lands across Nevada. The Division does not hold federal contracts as a prime contractor and does not subcontract; all federal transacting is grant-receipt work funded through the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior.

The Division's federal grant portfolio centers on wildfire mitigation and forest stewardship. Representative recent awards include a $25.6 million Project Grant from the USDA Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) on June 2, 2025, for hazardous fuels reduction projects across Region Four funded under the American Relief Act 2025 disaster supplemental; a $3.768 million Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CFDA 10.720) awarded September 12, 2024, for the Duck Creek Basin region; a $2.987 million Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CFDA 10.720) awarded December 15, 2025, for defensible-space improvements in the Glenbrook and East Shore Tahoe areas; and a $2.445 million Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CFDA 10.720) awarded December 15, 2025, for landscape resilience in the Upper Kingsbury Community. Additionally, the Division received a $444,444 State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance award (CFDA 10.698) on August 10, 2026, to administer and support the fourth and final round of Nevada's Community Wildfire Defense Grant program, funding a coordinator position and contracted outreach, mapping, and project-management services. The Division also operates federal nursery programs: a $160,000 Bipartisan Infrastructure Act Nursery Vegetation award (CFDA 10.736) on February 2, 2026, supporting staffing and training at the Washoe State Tree Nursery and Las Vegas Nursery; and a $100,000 Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund award (CFDA 15.615) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Steamboat buckwheat monitoring in Washoe County.

Customer concentration is sharp within Department of Agriculture Forest Service programs. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station accounts for 85 awards, and the Forest Service broadly (including regional offices) carries 121 named awards across the source data — approximately 53% of the Division's recent federal award count. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region and Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 together account for 44 additional awards and represent the Division's second and third largest customer tiers. Activity has remained relatively stable: 13 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 11 in 2025, and 7 year-to-date in 2026. Five awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing potential recompete opportunity.

The Division's grant work spans cooperative programs, disaster-recovery funding, and species-conservation efforts. NAICS concentration centers on Support Activities for Forestry (28 awards), Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (15 awards), and Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating (11 awards). Concrete work performed includes mechanical mastication and hand thinning of hazardous fuels on hundreds of acres (110 acres in Malloy Springs, 435.3 acres across Washoe and Elko Counties, 75 acres at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park); native plant propagation at two state nurseries serving federal refuges and restoration programs; drone-based census and monitoring of rare plant species including Las Vegas bearpoppy and Threecomer milkvetch; and administrative support for community wildfire protection plan development and implementation. The Division frequently partners with the University of Nevada, Reno as a sub-award recipient on landscape restoration and native plant propagation activities. The Division also coordinates with federal, state, and local cooperators — fire protection districts, sheriff's offices, and conservation districts — to distribute sub-awards for implementation of community-led hazardous fuels projects on non-federal lands.