Forestry, West Virginia Division Of

Forestry, West Virginia Division Of, a state government entity and child agency of the State of West Virginia headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia, operates as a federal grant recipient focused on forest management, wildfire prevention, and conservation services on non-federal forest lands across West Virginia. The Division acts as a prime recipient on 140 of 144 recent awards (97%), with a sub-recipient role on four grant awards, and holds no federal contract prime positions.

The Division's federal work concentrates entirely on cooperative forestry assistance and wildfire management programs funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 9 (Eastern Region), which administers the bulk of its grants. Recent representative awards include a $2.43 million consolidated cooperative forestry assistance grant (CFDA 10.664) awarded August 21, 2025, consolidating forest stewardship, urban and community forestry, volunteer fire capacity, and state fire capacity programs through June 30, 2030; a $498,367 Cooperative Forestry Assistance award (CFDA 10.664) on June 2, 2026, supporting forest management and wildfire mitigation through May 26, 2031; a $2 million Inflation Reduction Act Forest Legacy Program award (CFDA 10.734) on March 6, 2024, for land acquisition and protection of environmentally important forest areas; and a $219,999 cooperative agreement with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902) effective September 8, 2025, supporting conservation planning and technical assistance to private forest landowners through September 30, 2029. Concrete deliverables across the grant portfolio include wildfire prevention training and equipment procurement, community wildfire protection planning, forest stewardship technical assistance to private landowners, urban and community forestry initiatives, production and distribution of genetically improved tree seeds and seedlings, prescribed fire implementation, hazardous fuels reduction, and administration of the Forest Legacy Program's conservation easement and fee-simple land acquisition process.

The Division's customer base is highly concentrated. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service (which includes the R9-Eastern Region and State and Private Forestry Program components) accounts for 124 of 144 awards (86% of award count). The National Resources Conservation Service represents 14 awards, and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 accounts for 2 awards, representing 97% coverage across the top customer tiers. No vehicle-level breakdown is available in the source; all work flows through direct USDA Forest Service and NRCS grant awards rather than through government-wide IDIQs or GWACs. The Division operates as a sub-recipient on work funded through West Virginia University Research Corporation, most recently receiving sub-awards on March 9, 2026, for "Meet your Forester — A West Virginia Initiative for Underserved Woodland Owners" and on February 23, 2026, for "Landscape Scale Restoration Using West Virginia State Forests as Examples of Impactful Invasive Management."

Award activity shows moderate oscillation over the past five years (four awards in 2022, ten in 2023, five in 2024, ten in 2025, and four in 2026), with only two awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure in the immediate horizon. The Division's combined potential value across all awards in the source is reported as $525 with $59.3 million obligated, reflecting data reconciliation issues in the underlying source file; the representative awards cited above substantiate ongoing multi-million-dollar funding streams extending through 2030 and beyond, anchored to the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664), State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance (CFDA 10.698), and Forest Legacy Program mechanisms.