Wild Rice Soil Conservation District

Wild Rice Soil Conservation District, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Forman, North Dakota, serves as a prime recipient on federal environmental grant programs focused on watershed assessment, water-quality improvement, and landowner outreach. The organization operates as a grant recipient rather than a contract prime, with 80% of recent awards held in prime capacity and the remainder as a sub-recipient under state environmental-quality grantees.

Wild Rice's customer concentration is narrow and stable. The Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service accounts for 8 of 10 awards in the recent footprint, with the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 providing the remaining two. Combined federal obligated dollars total $633 thousand across the full award history. The organization's representative work includes a cooperative agreement awarded January 6, 2023, by NRCS to assess the Wild Rice River watershed and provide outreach to landowners and producers within the watershed, with ultimate completion on July 20, 2023. As a sub-recipient, Wild Rice participates in two grants administered by the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality: the Wild Rice River PTMApp Prioritization and Implementation Project under the Clean Water Act Section 319 Nonpoint Source Implementation program, awarded July 21, 2021, and the Wild Rice River PTMApp Prioritization Project Phase II, awarded October 1, 2025.

Activity is episodic rather than continuous. The source records ten awards spanning from 2008 to 2025, with clustering in 2010 and 2011 (six combined awards), followed by gaps of approximately ten years before single awards in 2021, 2023, and 2025. This pattern reflects project-grant cycles rather than ongoing contract engagement. Wild Rice's role is environmental stewardship and stakeholder coordination at the watershed level, not service delivery or product procurement.