Fireshed Management & Wildfire Risk Reduction
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act: cross-connection with strategic-grazing-wildfire-reduction: Both address fuel-load reduction strategies for wildfire risk mitigation on federal lands, with strategic grazing serving as one tactical tool within broader fireshed management approaches. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-25 — DOE and USDA Interagency Research Act: cross-connection with doe-usda-interagency-research: HR1326 lists wildfire risk research as a designated DOE–USDA collaboration area, linking energy R&D coordination to federal wildfire risk reduction efforts. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-12-16 — Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025: cross-connection with southwest-ecological-restoration-institute-utah: The Utah institute would generate applied research and adaptive management tools directly relevant to fireshed-scale wildfire risk reduction efforts. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-04-27 — FIRE Act: cross-connection with exceptional-events-clean-air-act: FIRE Act directs EPA to account for wildfire-risk mitigation (including fireshed-scale prescribed burning) in NAAQS exceedance determinations, connecting fuels-management policy to air-quality compliance. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-03-17 — Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act: cross-connection with post-disaster-reforestation-restoration: Fireshed management targets pre-fire risk reduction while the reforestation program addresses post-disturbance recovery on the same federal and tribal lands. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-06-15 — Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act: cross-connection with cross-boundary-wildfire-mitigation: Both address coordination of wildfire mitigation across jurisdictional boundaries on federal, state, tribal, and private lands. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-03-06 — Fix Our Forests Act: Fix Our Forests Act (introduced) would designate high-risk fireshed management areas, establish an interagency Fireshed Center with a public fireshed registry, expedite/exempt certain forest projects from NEPA, limit ESA consultation and litigation, and fund community wildfire risk reduction, restoration, biochar, technology, and wildland firefighter assistance. (novelty: 3)