Conservation Impact: FY22-23 Overview

The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF) casts a very long conservation shadow given our relatively small membership size at about 11,000 worldwide. Through exceptional support from our membership, sponsors, donors, and industry partners, WSF has been able to raise and direct during the past ten years more than $56 million to Mission Program Funding which represents programs enhancing and restoring wild sheep worldwide.

Click here to download the full FY22-23 Conservation Impact Publication.

In a relentless effort to improve processes and programs to better achieve our Vision, Purpose, and Mission, during the spring of 2022 WSF revised our Grant-In-Aid (GIA) process to one which better engages our Chapter and Affiliates as participating stakeholders while focusing our GIA on larger, bolder, and multi-year legacy projects from $50,000 to $250,000 and more. We envisioned that funding larger projects would act as a catalyst for additional support. It worked.
 
During the twelve months of July 2022 to June 2023 WSF funded more than $7.53 million in Mission Program Funding (MPF) including $1.35+ million to eighteen Grant-In-Aid programs requested through our Chapters and Affiliates, $1.7+ Million in advocacy, research, education, and industry support GIA funding, plus $4.47+ Million that was directed to our state, provincial and tribal/First Nation partners through 2023 conservation permit sales.
 
The FY22-23 Conservation Impact Publication showcases the results of our spring 2022 refresh of our Grant-In-Aid funding process and the impact these eighteen projects are having on the wild sheep resource and the habitat they depend on. Our feature spotlight is the I.O.N. Partnership in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, including Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge predator management, plus we provide updates on a multi-partner 3-way Movi testing project in Nebraska, the Harcuvar Mountain project in Arizona, and on-going Hells Canyon Initiative work in the Tri-States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, as well as summaries of the balance of the 14 funded projects.
 
This is your legacy and your work through your generous support. Thank you!
 
I also want to thank our Chapter and Affiliate partners and funding partners for their exceptional efforts, which together with the Wild Sheep Foundation, help accomplish our collective Purpose to Put and Keep Wild Sheep on the Mountain®! Please enjoy this inaugural WSF FY 2022-2023 Conservation Impact Summary.
 
Yours in wild sheep and wildlife conservation,
 
Gray N. Thornton
President & CEO