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Forest Service Directive System

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To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

2026-01-13 — SAWMILL Act: 2025 — SAWMILL Act (HR6277, referred to House Subcommittee on Forestry and Horticulture) is incremental timber/sawmill legislation that, depending on final text, could prompt conforming Forest Service directive updates governing timber sale program administration and mill-related contracting on National Forest System lands. (novelty: 2)
2025-06-11 — Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025: 2025 — Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025 (HR3930, introduced and referred to House Agriculture and Natural Resources) would statutorily codify roadless-area protections on National Forest System lands, which if enacted would require conforming revisions to Forest Service directives governing road construction, timber harvest, and project review in inventoried roadless areas. (novelty: 2)
2026-05-21 — To provide that the final rule titled “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation” and issued on January 12, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 3244) shall have no force or effect and require the Secretary of Agriculture to construct certain roads on National Forest System lands, and for other purposes.: 2026 — HR7695 (introduced) would nullify the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (66 Fed. Reg. 3244) and mandate that the Secretary of Agriculture construct certain roads on National Forest System lands, which if enacted would require conforming rescissions and rewrites of Forest Service directives governing road construction, timber access, and project review in inventoried roadless areas. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
2026-07-21 — North Rim and Kaibab National Forest Restoration Act of 2026: 2026 — North Rim and Kaibab National Forest Restoration Act of 2026 (S3785, subcommittee hearing) would authorize site-specific restoration measures on the North Rim and Kaibab National Forest, which if enacted would likely require Forest Service directive updates governing restoration project planning, treatment authorities, and NEPA implementation for the covered units. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
2026-07-14 — Wildfire Prevention and Recovery Act: 2026 — Wildfire Prevention and Recovery Act (S4970, introduced and referred to Senate EPW) may, depending on final text, require conforming updates to Forest Service directives on wildfire prevention, fuels management, and post-fire recovery on National Forest System lands. (novelty: 3)
2025-10-27 — Shenandoah Mountain Act: Shenandoah Mountain Act (introduced) would designate an ~92,562-acre National Scenic Area and four new wilderness units in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, which if enacted would require Forest Service directive updates governing management, permitting, and prohibited uses on the newly designated lands. (novelty: 2)
2026-01-13 — To extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.: 2024 — HR6535 (introduced) would extend Secure Rural Schools resource-advisory-committee (RAC) project authorities through FY2028, sustaining Forest Service directive-level procedures that govern RAC project selection and Title II special project accounts. (novelty: 2)
2025-12-02 — Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025: 2025 — Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025 (S2042, subcommittee hearing) would statutorily codify roadless-area protections on National Forest System lands, which if enacted would require conforming revisions to Forest Service directives governing road construction, timber harvest, and project review in inventoried roadless areas. (novelty: 3)
2025-01-04 — EXPLORE Act: EXPLORE Act (P.L. 118-234, enacted) requires the Forest Service (with Interior) to inventory and assess recreation resources and infrastructure and to participate in a new Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation, likely prompting directive updates governing recreation planning, permitting, and interagency coordination. (novelty: 3)
2026-03-19 — Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act: Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act (introduced) would bar the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating lead ammunition and tackle on National Forest System lands and waters absent unit-level field data of lead-caused wildlife declines plus state approval, constraining any directive-level restrictions. (novelty: 3)
2026-03-04 — Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act: 2026 — HR5419 (Enhancing Administrative Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act, introduced) would require the Forest Service (with Interior) to study and report barriers and staffing needs affecting timely reviews of communications use authorizations, potentially prompting directive updates governing tower/broadband siting reviews on National Forest System land. (novelty: 2)
2025-03-06 — Fix Our Forests Act: Fix Our Forests Act (introduced) would establish fireshed management areas and streamline NEPA/ESA procedures for qualifying forest projects, likely requiring conforming changes to Forest Service directives governing project review, categorical exclusions, and public participation. (novelty: 3)
2026-06-03 — Removing Unnecessary and Counterproductive Restrictions on Access to Federal Lands: cross-connection with federal-lands-access-restrictions-eo: Forest Service directives are a primary vehicle through which agency-level access restrictions are codified and would need revision to implement the EO. (novelty: 2)