Lewis Soil Conservation District

Lewis Soil Conservation District, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Nezperce, Idaho, operates as a sub-recipient on federal environmental and wildfire-mitigation grants, with no prime contract or direct federal contracting footprint. The district receives four sub-awards across two federal funding streams, totaling $1.2 million in obligated dollars over the past four years, and serves exclusively as a sub-recipient under state pass-through entities rather than as a direct federal awardee.

The district's grant work spans two distinct capability areas. Water quality and agricultural practice improvement comprises one line of activity: under a sub-award issued in April 2026 by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, the district works with at least eight private agricultural producers in Lewis County's Big Canyon and Lawyer Creek watersheds (tributaries to the Clearwater River) to install livestock management practices, erosion-control structures, and nutrient-management systems aimed at reducing TMDL-listed pollutants. Wildfire mitigation and fuels reduction comprises the second: three sub-awards from the Idaho Department of Lands (dated April 2022, January 2025, and December 2025) fund hazard fuel treatment on non-federal lands in western Lewis County and related public education on wildfire preparedness, expanding work undertaken in prior years (FY18 and FY21).

Federal funding flows through two agencies: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Northern Region (3 awards) and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 (1 award), each routing sub-awards through Idaho state entities. No recompete or vehicle-position intelligence applies — the district holds no contract vehicles and no prime awards. The activity profile shows one sub-award in 2022, a two-year gap, then two sub-awards in 2025 and one in 2026, reflecting episodic project-based funding rather than sustained contract vehicles or recurring task-order streams.