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Land Acquisition 2025 Grant

Land Acquisition 2025 is a statewide Wildlife Conservation Board opportunity for eligible nonprofits, public agencies, and Tribal Governments pursuing property acquisition. The documented process is transaction-specific: acquisitions are on a willing-seller basis, require a fair-market-value appraisal approved by the Department of General Services, and involve CDFW biological evaluation, Director review, and WCB consideration. The stated process typically takes 6–12 months. Funding amounts, cost share, deadlines, application instructions, and published selection criteria are not provided in the evidence.

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Geography

Statewide

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Program area

Environment & Water

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inferred

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unclear

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What the funder is trying to accomplish

The program supports property acquisitions through a process in which CDFW evaluates a property's biological values, CDFW's Director reviews and approves the evaluation, and WCB receives a recommendation to fund. WCB and CDFW also regularly evaluate and set acquisition priorities as opportunities arise. Acquisitions are made from willing sellers and use a fair-market-value appraisal approved by DGS.

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The applicant is a nonprofit, public agency, or Tribal Government, matching the expressly listed applicant categories. The proposal concerns a concrete property acquisition within the stated statewide geography, rather than a general programmatic activity. The inference is based on the acquisition-specific program description. A willing seller is identified, consistent with WCB's stated willing-seller acquisition basis. The property has biological values that can be evaluated through the Full WCB Real Property Acquisition Application process carried out with CDFW. The transaction can accommodate a DGS-approved fair-market-value appraisal and a process that typically takes 6–12 months.

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No formal scoring criteria or priority rubric is supplied. It is reasonable to infer that the documented process will place weight on the property's biological values, its relationship to acquisition priorities considered by WCB and CDFW, willing-seller status, and the DGS-approved fair-market-value appraisal requirement. These are process-based inferences, not confirmed scoring factors.

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What this grant funds

All acquisitions are made on a "willing seller" basis pursuant to a fair market value appraisal as approved by the Department of General Services (DGS). The acquisition activities are carried out in conjunction with the CDFW, which generally entails CDFW evaluating the biological values of property through development of a Full WCB Real Property Acquisition Application. Once these evaluations are completed, they are submitted to CDFW’s Director for review and approval and then sent to the WCB with a recommendation to fund. Typically this process can take anywhere from 6 to 12 months. Concurrent to this the WCB regularly meets with CDFW to help evaluate and set acquisition priorities as new opportunities present themselves.

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Geography: Statewide
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Source: state CA
Last checked: 8/23/2026, 8:51:39 AM
Content updated: 8/12/2026, 2:39:56 AM
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