Wildfire Relief
Rancher & Landowner Resources
Damage Assessment Coordinator
Contact for local needs and for livestock producers impacted by the fire to submit their needs assessment form.
Keith Raymond: 605-390-3695
Damage Assessment and Information Gathering FormProducer Grant Coordinator
Contact to apply for financial support for supplies and other needs. Grant form deadline – October 7, 2024.
Rosebud County CattleWomen – Scheena Schiffer: 406-600-5610
Grant ApplicationHay, Fencing, and Other Supplies Coordinator
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Ellie Brighton: 406-442-3420 or 541-430-4343
Producer Request FormFencing Installation Coordinator
Primary coordinator for fencing supplies and installation.
Heather Herman: 307-752-7953
USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)
The Emergency Conservation Program and Emergency Forest Restoration Program can assist landowners and forest stewards with financial and technical assistance to restore fencing, damaged farmland or forests.
Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP): Provides benefits to eligible livestock owners or contract growers for livestock deaths in excess of normal mortality caused by eligible loss conditions, including eligible adverse weather, eligible disease and attacks by animals reintroduced into the wild by the federal government or protected by federal law, including wolves and avian predators.
Emergency Livestock Assistance Program (ELAP): Covers losses due to an eligible adverse weather or loss condition, including blizzards, disease (including cattle tick fever), water shortages and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary.
Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP): Provides compensation to eligible livestock producers who have suffered grazing lossesfor covered livestock.
Local FSA field office contacts:
Lame Deer Service Center – (406) 477-649
Billings Service Center – (406) 657-6135
Broadus Service Center – (406) 436-2321
Crow Agency Service Center – (406) 629-3228
Forsyth Service Center – (406) 346-7333
Hardin Service Center – (406) 665-3442
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
Deadline: NRCS accepts applications for all programs year-round, producers and landowners should apply for this opportunity by October 25, 2024, to be considered for this funding cycle.
Eligibility: Farmers, ranchers, and forestland owners impacted by the following fires may be eligible for NRCS wildfire recovery assistance.
- Barber Draw
- Deadman Complex (Bull, Deadman, Haywood, McGhee, Nelson Draw, Three Circle)
- Four Mile
- Otter Road
- Prairie
- Remington
NRCS is offering technical and financial assistance through its Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to agricultural landowners impacted by 2024 wildfires in Big Horn, Powder River, and Rosebud counties.
Local NRCS field office contacts:
- Big Horn County – (406) 629-3220
- Crow Reservation – (406) 629-3228
- Powder River County – (406) 436-2321
- Rosebud County – (406) 346-7333
- Northern Cheyenne Reservation – (406) 740-0897
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
For BLM inquiries please contact Dawn Doran, Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist in the Miles City Field Office at (406) 233-2833 or email: [email protected].
Other Resources
Free Counseling for the Montana Agricultural Community
Frontier Psychiatry
To schedule an appointment: 406-200-8471, ext. #7
Schedule your FREE appointmentConservation Districts
Big Horn County Conservation District: Hardin Service Center 205 13th Street West, Hardin MT 59034, 406-629-3229 Contact: Kylie Martin, [email protected], [email protected]
Rosebud County Conservation District: Contact: Bobbi Vannattan, [email protected] 406-351-8012
Powder River Conservation District: Contact: Jessica Beagles, [email protected], 406-436-2321 x 111
