R6 State Wildlife Grant Program to STATE FISH GAME AGENCIES ONLY | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The R6 State Wildlife Grant Program (Funding Opportunity Number F13AS00189; CFDA 15.634) is a mandatory U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant program aimed specifically at supporting state-level efforts to conserve wildlife and wildlife habitat, including species that are not traditionally supported through hunting or fishing programs. The program provides federal funding to States, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Commonwealths and territories, but eligibility is limited to state governments, and in practice the opportunity is directed to state fish and game agencies only. The overall purpose is to help jurisdictions build and carry out strategic, science-based conservation work that benefits wildlife populations and the habitats they depend on, with a clear emphasis on species with the greatest conservation need.

Funding under this opportunity can support two broad categories of work: planning and implementation. Planning activities must directly contribute to creating, updating, or modifying the state Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan, commonly referred to as the Wildlife Action Plan. These plans were originally required to be submitted by October 1, 2005, and any planning work funded through this grant must feed into the development or revision of that plan and align with the formal plan framework. In addition, the Wildlife Action Plan must be approved by the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which means proposed planning tasks should be framed as concrete steps that strengthen the plan itself rather than general conservation planning that sits outside of the official Wildlife Action Plan process.

Implementation activities are the second major use of funds and refer to on-the-ground or programmatic actions that a state intends to carry out to execute its Wildlife Action Plan. In other words, once priorities and strategies are established in the plan, this funding can be used to put those strategies into practice. While the announcement does not list specific project types, implementation generally implies habitat improvement and protection actions, species conservation measures, monitoring and assessment tied to plan objectives, and other direct conservation interventions that are clearly traceable to Wildlife Action Plan priorities and outcomes.

A key program rule is that states should prioritize spending on species identified as having the greatest conservation need. The opportunity also notes that prioritization should account for the relative level of other available funding for those species, which reinforces the program role as gap-filling support for underfunded conservation needs. In practical terms, the strongest proposals are typically those that clearly identify the relevant Wildlife Action Plan species and habitats, explain the conservation problem, show why the activity is a priority compared to other needs, and demonstrate how federal funding will materially advance measurable conservation results that might not happen otherwise.

The announcement also draws a firm line around what is not eligible. Wildlife education and law enforcement activities are generally ineligible uses of funds. However, there is a limited exception: an education or law enforcement component may be allowable when it is minor or incidental, yet still critical to the success of an otherwise eligible project. Even then, it must directly contribute to conserving species of greatest conservation need and their habitats, and it must be consistent with the development or implementation of the state Wildlife Action Plan. This essentially means education or enforcement cannot be the main purpose of the grant but may be included as a supporting piece when it is necessary to achieve the core conservation objective.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a grant (Funding Instrument Type: Grant) in the natural resources category, with a cost sharing or matching requirement (the opportunity indicates that matching is required, though it does not specify the percentage in the provided text). The posting date is May 29, 2013, and the listed closing date is August 31, 2014, with the archive date of November 30, 2014. The opportunity record shows estimated total funding and award floor/ceiling as 0, which usually indicates that specific funding amounts were determined elsewhere (such as in allocations, annual guidance, or accompanying documents) rather than embedded in this public synopsis.

For applicants needing access to the full announcement or having difficulty retrieving it electronically, the listed contact is Maria Sanchez at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (303-236-8185; MariaSanchez@fws.gov). The synopsis also references Grants.gov as the primary source for the full posting and application materials.

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