BLM Kingman Field Office Ranches

Ranches that are permitted to use grazing allotments administered by the Bureau of Land Management Kingman Field Office and have benefited from government assistance. (Additional ranches are added to this list as information becomes available.)

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Government Assistance For Ranchers Program Key
ALLBAWPFECPEQIPEWPHPCHeritage FundLCCGPLFPLOFFAPLRPPFWPWQIG
AALB - Arizona Livestock Loss Board, Arizona Livestock Loss Board (federal/state)
AWPF - Arizona Water Protection Fund, AWPF Commission (state)
ECP - Emergency Conservation Program, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (federal)
EQIP - Environmental Quality Incentives Program, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (federal)
The EQIP program absorbed the NRCS Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) after 2014.
EWP - Emergency Watershed Protection, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (federal)
The Arizona EWP Drought Program was discontinued in 2001 after a critical audit.
HPC - Habitat Partnership Committee, Arizona Game & Fish Commission (state)
Arizona Heritage Fund, Arizona Game & Fish Commission (state)
LCCGP - Livestock & Crop Conservation Program, Arizona Department of Agriculture (state)
Note: Open Space Reserve Grants became LCCGP Grants after 2002.
LFP - Livestock Forage Disaster Program, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (federal)
LOFFAP - Livestock Operator Fire & Flood Assistance Program, Arizona Department of Agriculture (state)
LRP - Landowner Relations Program, Arizona Game & Fish Department (state)
PFWP - Partners for Fish & Wildlife Program, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (federal)
WQIG - Water Quality Improvement Grant, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (federal/state)
Note: These grants were previously called Section 319 nonpoint source (NPS) water pollution prevention grants.
Bar S RanchBig Sandy RanchCampwood Cattle Co. RanchesCane Springs RanchCrozier Canyon RanchFrancis Creek RanchLa Cienega RanchQuail Springs Ranch
Bar S Ranch (Bar S Cattle & Guest Ranch LLC) - Bateman Spring & Chicken Springs Allotments, State Lease #05-001467
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
1999EWP$118,440Paid to Take Cattle Off the Land During Drought
2012Heritage Fund$35,000Public Access for 7 Years
2014EQIP$14,311
2014-2020LFP$171,301
2019Heritage Fund$43,000Public Access for 7 Years
2022HPC #21-3078,723Water Well Solar Conversion
$390,775TOTAL 1999 - 2022
Big Sandy Ranch (William Roer Jr.) - Artillery Range Allotment
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
1997AWPF #96-0017$92,000New Livestock Fences & Water to Protect Big Sandy River From Cattle
2015-2022LFP$107,444
$199,444TOTAL 1997 - 2022
Camp Wood Cattle Co. Ranches (Camp Wood Cattle Co., LLC) - Camp Wood, Toohey, Granite (FS) & Scratch Canyon (BLM) Allotments, State Lease #05-000795
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
1999EWP$33,949Paid to Take Cattle Off the Land During Drought
2008-2020EQIP$382,464DBA Wagon Bow Ranch LLC
2015LFP$421,340
2020-2021LFP$123,810
2022LFP$241,328
$1,202,891TOTAL 1999 -2022
The Camp Wood grazing allotment is located in the Chino Valley Ranger District and is permitted to the 7 Up Ranch, which also holds the permit to the BLM Scratch Canyon allotment, and state grazing lease #05-000795. The Granite & Toohey allotments are adjacent to each other in the Bradshaw Ranger District and permitted to the Lazy K8 "Kate" Ranch. In 2019 the Camp Wood Cattle Co., LLC, subleased state grazing lease #05-001322, which belongs to the TT Ranch located in the Sonoran Desert in northern Maricopa County.
Cane Springs Ranch (Anita M. Waite) - Hibernia Peak A&B Allotments, State Lease #05-088193
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
1999EWP$117,600Paid to Take Cattle Off the Land During Drought
2000EWP$48,602Paid to Take Cattle Off the Land During Drought
2000WQIG #1-005$9,323Livestock Water Catchment Restoration
2005LCCGP #05-91$150,000Livestock Water
2006-2018EQIP$493,920
2007LCCGP #07-87$125,000Livestock Water
2009LCCGP #09-112$82,250Livestock Water & Vegetation Project, Phase 3
2010HPC #09-304$14,250Livestock Water
2011LCCGP #11-78$125,000Livestock Water & Vegetation Project, Phase 4
2014-2021LFP$266,107
2015HPC #14-301*$56,200Kill Coyotes & Mtn. Lions to Protect Mule Deer Fawns
2016Heritage Fund$5,000Public Access for 3 Years
2020Heritage Fund$10,000Public Access for 3 Years
2022EQIP$41,385
2022LFP$55,293
$1,599,930TOTAL 1999 - 2022
* This was shared with neighboring ranches.
Crozier Canyon Ranch (Crozier Canyon LLC) - Crozier Canyon Allotment
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
2009LCCGP #09-87$33,150Water Pipeline
2020-2022LFP$351,580
2022EQIP$55,630
2022Heritage Fund$7,855Solar Water Well Pumps
$448,215TOTAL 2009 - 2022
Francis Creek Ranch (Francis Creek Ranch, LLC) - Francis Creek, Big Sandy, Bagdad, Gray Wash, Greenwood Peak Community, Groom Peak, Byner, Cane Springs Wash, Diamond Joe, Los Molinos, Sandy, Walnut Creek & Loma Linda Allotments, State Lease #05-003387, #05-003173
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
2008-2017EQIP$713,235
2011LCCGP #11-57$50,790Windmill & Solar Water Pump
2012Heritage Fund$80,000Public Access for 7 Years
2015HPC #14-301*$56,200Kill Coyotes & Mtn. Lions to Protect Mule Deer Fawns
2015-2021LFP$541,847
2019Heritage Fund$100,000Public Access for 5 Years
2022EQIP$64,210
2022LFP$153,539
$1,759,821TOTAL 2008 - 2022
* This was shared with neighboring ranches.
La Cienega Ranch (Lucky Buckaroo Cattle Co. LLC, Utah) - La Cienega Allotment, State Lease #05-101730
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
2007-2010EQIP*$141,576
2010-2011EQIP*$126,814
2014-2018LFP*$101,126
2020-2021LFP$42,429
2022LFP$52,084
$464,029TOTAL 2007 - 2022
* This assistance was procured by the ranch’s previous owners.
Quail Springs Ranch (Charles W. "Bill" Hamilton) - Big Ranch Units A & B, Gold Basin Allotments, State Leases #05-116005, #05-052249, #05-002828, #05-116371, #05-052773
YEARSPROGRAMAMOUNTPROJECT NAME
1999EWP$13,976Paid to Take Cattle Off the Land During Drought
2000EWP$8,741Paid to Take Cattle Off the Land During Drought
2005-2021EQIP$288,884
2011-2021LFP$444,588
2022LFP$62,908
$819,097TOTAL 2000 - 2022
Background Information About Government Assistance Programs

Some of this financial assistance was justified as being primarily for the purpose of improving wildlife habitat or watershed health. But those projects also benefited livestock production on the ranches where they were implemented. Whatever improvements to local natural resource conditions that might have resulted were tempered by the increased livestock grazing they facilitated.

The assistance didn’t always go directly to the ranchers, but sometimes to local non-profit organizations that helped them complete application processes and minimize taxable income. This included the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance, Coronado Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc., Gila Watershed Partnership of Arizona, and the Upper Eagle Creek Watershed Association (UECWA).

Some of it also went to the local Natural Resource Conservation District (NRCD). Arizona’s NRCDs are regional subdivisions of the State Land Department, and are comprised only of local landowners, mostly ranchers, that work to obtain funding for agricultural “conservation” projects. They often work to obtain grants that directly benefit their members, including their governing supervisors. The local NRCDs also created the private nonprofit Arizona Association of Conservation Districts so they could apply for more types of assistance.

These aren't the only examples of Arizona ranches that benefited from government assistance. But it takes a lot of work to gather and compile this sort of information, because the agencies don't normally disclose it, so this web page will be updated as additional records are obtained. Also, the information provided about some of these ranches may be incomplete. But that just means those ranches benefited from at least the amounts shown.

This page was last updated on Sep 22, 2023 @ 10:00 am.

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