Fix Our Forests Act
Current understanding
The Fix Our Forests Act is a legislative package that restructures federal wildfire and forest management by designating high-risk ‘fireshed management areas’ and creating an interagency Fireshed Center with a public fireshed registry. It expedites or exempts certain forest treatment projects from NEPA review, limits Endangered Species Act consultation and litigation, and authorizes support for community wildfire risk reduction, restoration, biochar, technology deployment, and wildland firefighter assistance. Status: introduced; effects on forest-adjacent communities, timber and biomass markets, and litigation exposure depend on final scope and implementation.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act: cross-connection with strategic-grazing-wildfire-reduction: Both are federal legislative vehicles addressing wildfire risk reduction on federal lands, with strategic grazing offering a livestock-based complement to forest management approaches. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-02 — Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025: cross-connection with roadless-area-conservation-act: Both bills reshape management authority on National Forest System lands but in different directions — Fix Our Forests streamlines project approvals while the Roadless Act restricts road-building and harvest in inventoried roadless areas. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-03-17 — Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act: cross-connection with post-disaster-reforestation-restoration: Both address post-disturbance forest recovery on federal lands, with the Reforestation Act focusing on replanting after unplanned disturbances and Fix Our Forests on broader resilience and management. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-03-06 — Fix Our Forests Act: cross-connection with forest-service-notice-and-comment: NEPA streamlining and expanded categorical exclusions under the Act would alter the scope and timing of Forest Service notice-and-comment for covered fireshed projects. (novelty: 3)