Government Assistance For Arizona Ranchers

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)
  • Arizona ECP Recipients, 2019-2021
• USDA-FSA Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
  • Arizona LFP Recipients, 2011-2022 (Takes a few moments to load due to the large database.)
• USDA-NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Arizona Drought Program
  • EWP Arizona Drought Program Recipients, 2000
  • EWP Arizona Drought Program Recipients, 1999
• 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)
  • HPC Grants 2022
  • HPC Grants 2021
  • HPC Grants 2020
  • HPC Recurring Grants – as of 2020
  • HPC Grants 2019
  • HPC Grants 2018
  • HPC Grants 2010-2017
  • HPC Grants 2009
• Arizona Game & Fish Department Heritage Fund
  • Heritage Fund Ranch Agreements
• 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)*
  • Mexican Wolf Depredation Compensation Award Recipients, 2017-2022
  • Mexican Wolf Depredation Prevention Grant Recipients, 2019-2022
• Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction Grants*
  • WQIG Awards FY 2014 – FY 2020
  • Water Quality Improvement Grant (WQIG) Awards FY 2000 – FY 2013
• Arizona Department of Forestry & Wildfire Management Post-Wildfire Infrastructure Assistance Program (APWIAP)
  • APWIAP Grants January-June 2023
  • APWIAP Grants August-December 2022
  • APWIAP Grants as of August 10, 2022
  • Individual APWIAP Grants
    • APWIAP Grant 21-830 – Lyons Fork Grazing Allotment
    • APWIAP Grant 21-829 – Capitan Grazing Allotment
    • APWIAP Grant 21-828 – Jones Grazing Allotment
    • APWIAP Grant 21-827 – Superior Grazing Allotment
    • APWIAP Grant 21-803 – Bear Fire
    • APWIAP Grant 21-804 – Cow Canyon Fire
    • APWIAP Grant 21-805 – Horton Complex Fire
• Arizona State Land Department Grazing Leases
• Arizona Water Protection Fund (AWPF)
  • AWPF Grants 2023
  • AWPF Grants 1995-2022
• Open Range Laws

* These programs are administered by the state, but the funds are provided, conditionally, by the federal government.

Updates

In January 2023 HB 2444 was introduced in the Arizona Legislature by Rep. Gail Griffin, R-Hereford, to create a Natural Resource Conservation District Fund Commision, comprised of regional NRCD supervisors, to disperse loosely-defined soil conservation grants from a new statewide NRCD fund. It passed, but on May 16, 2023, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed it. In her veto letter she explained the Legislature had failed to appropriate any money to the State Land Department, which administers the local NRCDs, for the commission's administrative expenses. But her letter didn't address the issue of where the money for the fund would have come from, or the long history of NRCDs failing to comply with the state's open meeting laws, or the undemocratic and feudal nature of the NRCDs because local landowners are the only people allowed to vote in their elections.