Nevada Division Of Forestry

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 forestry agency — not a federal contractor — and operates across wildfire mitigation, forest management, native plant propagation, and endangered species conservation. The Division does not bid on federal contracts and is not in the competitive procurement marketplace; all 221 prime awards in its recent portfolio are federal grants (project grants and cooperative agreements), with one sub-recipient arrangement. The Division serves as a recipient under programs administered by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and the Department of the Interior, delivering landscape-scale forest health and community wildfire defense services on non-federal lands across Nevada and subordinate sites.

The top federal grant sources are the Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (116 awards across multiple programs) and the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region (31 awards, $1.5 million combined potential value). Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 accounts for 13 awards focused on endangered species conservation and habitat restoration. The Division concentrates grant work under Cooperative Forestry Assistance (CFDA 10.664), Community Wildfire Defense Grants (CFDA 10.720), State & Private Forestry programs (CFDA 10.697, 10.698), Bipartisan Infrastructure Act nursery vegetation funding (CFDA 10.736), and Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Funds (CFDA 15.615). Representative grants include a $25.6 million disaster supplemental award under the American Relief Act, 2025 (awarded June 2, 2025) for hazardous fuels reduction across Region Four, a $3.768 million Community Wildfire Defense Grant (September 2024) for Duck Creek Basin wildfire protection planning and implementation, a $2.445 million CWDG award (December 2025) for Upper Kingsbury community mitigation, a $2.069 million Cooperative Forestry Assistance award (September 2025) for forest management on non-federal lands, and a $160,000 Bipartisan Infrastructure Act award (February 2026) supporting staffing and modernization of the Washoe State Tree Nursery and Las Vegas Nursery.

Recent activity remains steady at 11–17 awards per year, though 2026 has captured only two awards to date. Seven awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The Division's capability set spans hazardous fuels reduction treatments (mechanical mastication, hand thinning, prescribed burning), defensible space creation in wildland-urban interface areas, community wildfire protection planning and risk assessment, native plant seed production and propagation through the Washoe State Tree Nursery and Las Vegas Nursery, endangered species monitoring and habitat modeling (Steamboat buckwheat, Las Vegas bearpoppy, Threecomer milkvetch), disaster recovery support for facilities and equipment, and volunteer fire department training and equipment provision. The Division also operates as a sub-grantor, issuing sub-awards to the University of Nevada, Reno for landscape restoration and the Mason Valley Conservation District for riparian restoration projects. Work is performed across Nevada's diverse ecosystems (including Washoe, Elko, and Clark Counties) with administrative oversight in Carson City. A single outstanding federal contract award — a $151,050 purchase order (July 2024) from the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management under the Good Neighbor Authority program — represents the Division's limited direct federal procurement footprint; this award targets wildfire mitigation and forest management on federal lands and runs through July 2025.