Project Information

Year Awarded: Fiscal Year 2024

USDA Funding: $5,000,000.00

Partner-Contributed Funding: $5,530,000.00

Project Timeline: 2024-2030

RCPP Conservation Activities: Land management contracts

Arizona Counties: Portions of Navajo, Apache, Gila, Graham, and Greenlee

NOTE: New Mexico applicants should contact their local NRCS office in New Mexico

Lead Partner: Western Landowners Alliance

Collaborating Partners: US Fish and Wildlife Service, County Livestock Loss Authority, Badger Creek Corporation-Spur Lake Cattle Co.

Summary

The partners goal for the project is to reduce the challenges of recovering Mexican Gray Wolves in the southwest. This will be achieved through implementation on technical assistance in partnership with NRCS to advance adoption of grazing management systems that incorporate non-lethal risk management strategies, to allow for improved wolf habitat and improved rangeland and heard health. 

The objectives of this project are to: 

1. Support producer-implemented, non-lethal predator risk management strategies in coordination with agency-led efforts; 

2. Facilitate ongoing innovation and adaptation of strategies that fit within whole ranch management systems; and, 

3. Continue peer-to-peer knowledge exchange to improve efficiency and effectiveness of non-lethal predator risk management. 

Resource Concerns

Livestock production limitation, terrestrial habitat

Conservation Practices Offered

• 528 - Prescribed Grazing
• 645 - Upland Wildlife Habitat Management
• Other practices that address the listed resource concerns

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