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Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety — CFDA 15.611

$4.90 billion in federal obligations is indexed on USAspending.gov for Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety (CFDA 15.611). The listing carries 2,427 awards, 57 recipients, and a 55-state geographic count. Those dollars are assistance obligations, not outlays and not a count of acres, hunters, or courses. Fifty-seven recipients against 2,427 awards is a high awards-per-recipient ratio.

Key figures

  • CFDA 15.611 shows $4.90 billion in USAspending obligations for wildlife restoration and hunter education.
  • The listing covers 2,427 awards and 57 recipients.
  • Awards are coded to 55 states in the USAspending geographic count.
  • Totals are obligations, not outlays or acre counts.

Wildlife-restoration obligations at $4.90 billion

USAspending.gov records $4,904,363,499.22 in obligations under CFDA 15.611. Two thousand four hundred twenty-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2.02 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical habitat-project budget.

The assistance-listing title is WILDLIFE RESTORATION AND BASIC HUNTER EDUCATION AND SAFETY. CFDA 15.611 is the identifier. Other wildlife listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $4.90 billion.

USAspending.gov records the $4,904,363,499.22 obligation stock for CFDA 15.611 together with 2,427 awards, 57 recipients, and 55 states. Keep wildlife restoration on 15.611 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Fifty-seven recipients, many award rows

Fifty-seven recipients share 2,427 awards, or about 42.6 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $4.90 billion evenly would assign about $86.0 million per recipient. State wildlife agencies are the unit this kind of listing usually names; the packet does not list the 57.

Fifty-five states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Wildlife-restoration dollars still concentrate where program sizes are large. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not an acre count

Among interior listings, 15.611 is dense relative to its recipient set: 2,427 rows against 57 organizations. Project-level actions can inflate award count relative to unique habitats. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of acres restored.” Recipients (57) are the organizational headcount.

The packet does not report acreage, hunter numbers, or course completions. Citing 2,427 as acres or hunters would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus restoration cash

The $4.90 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against these awards — are not in the packet. A state agency can show a large obligation stock while project draws follow a different calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 15.611 to size this wildlife-restoration listing. Do not use it as an acreage inventory. This page reports the obligation book tagged 15.611.

What the 15.611 tables omit

The wildlife-restoration hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a habitat map, not a hunter roster, and not a course catalog. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $4,904,363,499.22.

Place-of-performance on 55 states is a coding field. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on habitat work.

Where the 15.611 table lives

The Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 15.611 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups. For 15.611 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 15.611’s 2,427 awards spread $4,904,363,499.22 across 57 recipients and 55 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 42.6 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 15.611 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census. Start on the program page for CFDA 15.611 before ranking this listing against other assistance rows. Obligations remain the reporting concept on this extract; outlays are not stored in the packet facts. Award count is a record count; recipient count is the organizational headcount; the state figure is a coded-jurisdiction count from USAspending.gov. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the obligation stock; this page does not publish remaining balances. Internal links on this overlay point to the program page, the all-programs index, and agency rollups. SpendingVault indexes USAspending.gov assistance awards; it does not convert this CFDA into a performance scorecard. If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept than obligations on assistance awards. Name the series as obligations whenever you quote the dollar stock, the award count, the recipient field, or the state count.

Questions

How much is obligated for wildlife restoration and hunter education?
USAspending.gov records $4,904,363,499.22 in obligations for CFDA 15.611. SpendingVault indexes 2,427 awards, 57 recipients, and 55 states. The figure is an obligation sum, not an outlay and not an acre count. CFDA 15.611’s $4.90 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.
How many awards does CFDA 15.611 carry?
The listing shows 2,427 awards against 57 recipients, or about 42.6 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2.02 million per award. Award count is not an acre or hunter count. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.
How many recipients appear on CFDA 15.611?
The extract lists 57 recipients on assistance awards tagged 15.611. Geographic coding covers 55 states. The packet does not name the 57 or publish acreage. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.
Is $4.90 billion already spent on wildlife restoration?
Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 15.611’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn or acres restored. The $4.90 billion on 2,427 awards is the obligation figure. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

CFDA/Assistance Listing numbers from USAspending assistance awards on SpendingVault.