Game & Fish Commission Wyoming

Game & Fish Commission Wyoming acts as a federal grant recipient (95% of recent awards as prime recipient, 5% as sub-recipient) delivering wildlife monitoring, habitat restoration, and natural-resource management services to federal agencies across 19 customer departments. The Commission is a U.S. state government entity headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and operates exclusively in the grant space—it has not held federal contracts and competes full-and-open for cooperative agreements and formula grants with no set-aside designations.

The Commission's federal footprint concentrates in the interior and natural-resource agencies. The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 dominates the portfolio with 88 awards (35% of the total 333 awards) and $92 thousand in combined potential value; the Department of the Interior as a whole accounts for 71% of recent awards by count. Supporting agencies include the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (40 awards), the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Region (34 awards), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ($34 thousand combined potential value across two awards), and the Bureau of Reclamation (15 awards). The Commission also receives funds from the U.S. Coast Guard for boating safety and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service for fuels reduction.

The Commission's capability portfolio centers on wildlife conservation, species-specific population monitoring and management, habitat restoration, and aquatic resource protection. Representative work spans endangered species recovery (grizzly bear and black-footed ferret monitoring and management under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund, CFDA 15.615), disease surveillance and prevention (hunter-harvested elk surveillance and brucellosis prevention under USDA APHIS Cooperative Agreements, CFDA 10.025), fish passage and aquatic restoration (native fish stocking and habitat restoration under the National Fish Passage Program, CFDA 15.685), state wildlife grants for species of greatest conservation need (CFDA 15.634), and aquatic invasive species prevention through watercraft inspections and decontamination. A representative grant award includes a $908 thousand State Wildlife Grants formula award (CFDA 15.634) from the Fish and Wildlife Service to fund 11 conservation projects addressing 278 species of greatest conservation need in Wyoming, including pygmy rabbit distribution surveys, bat population monitoring, cutthroat trout restoration, and aquatic snail habitat assessments. The Commission also holds a $1.425 million award from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) to staff aquatic invasive species technicians at three roadways during boating season to prevent zebra and quagga mussel contamination. Additionally, the Commission received a $20 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on January 31, 2024, for bald eagle monitoring services in Jackson, Wyoming through February 28, 2029, delivered under a sole-source procurement reflecting fifteen years of specialized wildlife monitoring experience.

The Commission operates as the prime recipient on cooperative agreements and formula grants with multiple federal agencies; sub-award activity is light (15 sub-awards, 5% of the total), directed to the National Fish And Wildlife Foundation and state environmental agencies for habitat restoration and wildlife corridor projects. The Commission partners with universities and conservation organizations such as the University of Wyoming, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, and Trout Unlimited when grant scope calls for research or specialized expertise; these appear as sub-recipients rather than subcontractors.

Activity has remained stable to declining year over year—18 awards in 2022, rising to 30 in 2024, then dropping to 18 in 2025 and 2 in 2026 (partial-year data as of mid-June). Eighteen awards reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing standard recompete exposure for formula grants and cooperative agreements on annual or multi-year cycles typical of the interior and wildlife conservation grant portfolio. The Commission's footprint is entirely grant and cooperative-agreement based; no federal contracts, IDVs, or GWACs are present in the award history. Combined potential value across the portfolio is understated at $234 thousand because the source carries formula-grant and cooperative-agreement ceilings as low placeholder values; obligated dollars across all awards total $530.6 million, reflecting the true scale of the Commission's federal wildlife and conservation work over the source period.