Strategic Grazing for Wildfire Risk Reduction
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2024-11-19 — To require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a strategy to increase opportunities to utilize livestock grazing as a means of wildfire risk reduction.: cross-connection with strategic-grazing-wildfire-risk-act: The bill proposes a national USDA strategy for the strategic-grazing approach covered by the broader wildfire-risk-reduction topic. (novelty: 2)
- 2013-11-20 — Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013: cross-connection with catastrophic-wildfire-prevention-act-2013: 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)
- 2026-07-22 — Wildfire Reduction Market Expansion Act of 2026: cross-connection with wildfire-reduction-market-expansion-act-2026: Both target expanding tools/markets for reducing wildfire fuel loads on forest and range lands. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-07-23 — Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act: S1981 (119th Congress), the Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act, was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar (General Orders, Calendar No. 495), directing USDA to promote targeted livestock grazing as a fuel-load reduction tool on federal lands. (novelty: 2)