The below-market federal grazing fee is just one of the many government subsidies provided to Arizona’s public land ranchers. This list of other government assistance programs available to them is updated as new information is acquired.
Arizona Public Land Ranches That Benefited From Government Assistance
Arizona State Land Ranches That Benefited From Government Assistance
Federal Government Assistance Programs
- USDA-FSA Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)
- USDA-FSA Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
- USDA-NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Arizona Drought Program
- USDA-NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
- Arizona EQIP Recipients, 2004-2022
- Arizona Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) Recipients, 2004-2017 (WHIP was absorbed by EQIP after 2014.)
Arizona State Government Assistance Programs
- Arizona Game & Fish Department Habitat Partnership Committee (HPC)
- Arizona Game & Fish Department Heritage Fund
- Arizona Department of Agriculture Livestock & Crop Conservation Grant Program (LCCGP)
- LCCGP Grant Recipients, 2005-2016
- Arizona State Parks Open Space Reserve (OSR) Grant Recipients 2002 (OSR Grants became LCCGP Grants in 2005.)
- Arizona Department of Agriculture Livestock Operator Fire & Flood Assistance Program (LOFFAP)
- Arizona Livestock Loss Board (ALLB)*
- Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction Grants*
- Arizona Department of Forestry & Wildfire Management Post-Wildfire Infrastructure Assistance Program (APWIAP)
- APWIAP Grants August-December 2022
- APWIAP Grants as of August 10, 2022
- APWIAP Grants to University of Arizona Cooperative Extension
- Arizona State Land Department Grazing Leases
- Arizona Water Protection Fund (AWPF)
- Open Range Laws
* These programs are administered by the state, but the funds are provided, conditionally, by the federal government.