The below-market federal grazing fee is just one of the many government subsidies that benefit Arizona’s public land ranchers. This list of other government assistance programs that help 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)
- Arizona LFP Recipients, 2011-2023 (Takes a few moments to load due to large database.)
- USDA-NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Arizona Drought Program
- USDA-NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
- Arizona EQIP Recipients, 2004-2023
- Arizona Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) Recipients, 2004-2017 (WHIP was absorbed by EQIP after 2014.)
- USDA-NRCS Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
- 2023 Arizona Strip Wildlife & Livestock Habitat Improvement – Lead Partner: Mule Deer Foundation, $1,219,512
- 2023 Grazing Management & Non-Lethal Predator Risk Mitigation in NM & AZ – Lead Partner: Western Landowners Alliance, $6,665,854
- 2023 Upper Verde River Watershed-Aquifer Protection & Resilient Grassland Conservation Strategy – Lead Partner: The Nature Conservancy, $12,439,024
- USDOI Burned Area Rehabilitation (BAR) Program
Arizona State Government Assistance Programs
- Arizona Game & Fish Department Habitat Partnership Committee (HPC)
- Arizona Game & Fish Department Heritage Fund
- Arizona Department of Agriculture Livestock Operator Fire & Flood Assistance Program (LOFFAP)
- 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 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 July-December 2023
- 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)
- Open Range Laws
* These programs are administered by the state, but the funds are provided, conditionally, by the federal government.