Wildfire Prevention on Federal Lands
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2022-01-19 — Ski Hill Resources for Economic Development Act of 2021: cross-connection with national-forest-recreation-permits: The bill would link ski area permit revenue to wildfire prevention by making retained rental fees available for local wildfire risk reduction. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-09-16 — Save Our Sequoias Act: cross-connection with giant-sequoia-conservation: Save Our Sequoias Act creates a species-specific emergency authority that overlaps with general federal-lands wildfire prevention tools. (novelty: 2)
- 2013-11-20 — Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013: S. 745 (113th Congress), the Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013, would have authorized the Forest Service and Interior to conduct wildfire-prevention projects on national forests and public lands using livestock grazing, thinning, and timber harvest, and required ESA recovery plans to include a wildfire-risk analysis; the bill received only subcommittee hearings and never became law. (novelty: 2)