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H.R. 471House bill · 119th CongressIn progressdonor lobbied itPublic Lands and Natural Resources

Fix Our Forests Act

Sponsored byBruce WestermanR-AR-4Introduced Jan 16, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Mar 6, 2025) — Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-27.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Jan 16, 2025

This bill establishes requirements for managing forests on federal land, including requirements concerning reducing wildfire threats, expediting the review of certain forest management projects, and implementing forest management projects and other activities.

Specifically, the bill (1) designates certain firesheds at high risk for wildfires as fireshed management areas; (2) directs the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey to jointly establish an interagency Fireshed Center that is responsible for duties related to assessing and predicting fire, including maintaining a fireshed registry on a publicly accessible website that provides interactive geospatial data on individual firesheds; and (3) makes other requirements related to reducing wildfire.

Next, the bill expedites the review of certain forest management projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and exempts certain activities from NEPA review. It also establishes intra-agency strike teams to accelerate the review and any interagency consultation processes under NEPA, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the National Historic Preservation Act. It also limits consultation requirements concerning threatened and endangered species under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Management and Policy Act of 1976. Finally, it limits litigation involving fireshed management projects and limits remedies that courts may provide.

Additionally, the bill supports reducing community wildfire risks, carrying out forest restoration and stewardship activities (including watershed protection and restoration), conducting biochar demonstration projects, advancing technologies to address forest wildfires, and assisting wildland firefighters and their families.

Face Value

as passed the House
97Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Length−3

    45 sections, against 20 before length counts against a bill.

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What Congress did

1 recorded

  • decisive vote

    House · Jan 23, 2025

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

    279 – 141

    Passed

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Who lobbied on this

22 organizations

These organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.

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