Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013
Current understanding
Unenacted 2013 Senate bill that would have authorized the Forest Service and Interior Department to carry out wildfire-prevention projects on national forests and public lands using livestock grazing, mechanical thinning, and timber harvest, and would have required endangered-species recovery plans to include a wildfire-risk analysis. The bill did not advance beyond subcommittee hearings and never became law, so it has no operative effect on farmers, ranchers, or federal land managers; its main current relevance is as a policy template that has resurfaced in later wildfire and grazing legislation.
Evidence log
- 2013-11-20 — Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013: cross-connection with strategic-grazing-wildfire-reduction: The 2013 bill is an early precursor to current ‘strategic grazing for wildfire risk reduction’ proposals, using targeted livestock grazing to reduce fuel loads on federal lands. (novelty: 2)