3.0.0 140 2026-09-08T18:09:59Z 2026-09-08T18:18:58Z Senate S S 2025-01-16 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/140 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings By (subcommittee) 2025-12-02T20:00:04Z Hearings By (subcommittee) 2025-12-02T20:00:04Z Markup By 2026-06-10T13:30:02Z Referred To 2025-01-16T22:12:19Z 2026-06-10 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2025-12-02 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-237. Committee 2025-01-16 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text: CR S228-231) IntroReferral 2025-01-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY N D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2025-01-16 True L000571 Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] Cynthia Lummis R WY M. 2025-01-16 True S001232 Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] Tim Sheehy R MT 2025-01-16 True R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2025-01-16 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2025-03-03 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Climate change and greenhouse gases 2025-03-12T13:37:15Z Congressional oversight 2025-03-12T13:37:41Z Data collection, sharing, protection 2026-04-08T14:17:26Z Environmental assessment, monitoring, research 2025-03-12T13:37:01Z Fires 2025-03-12T13:36:55Z Forests, forestry, trees 2025-03-12T13:36:48Z Government information and archives 2025-03-12T13:37:09Z Land use and conservation 2025-03-12T13:37:21Z Livestock 2025-03-12T13:37:33Z Performance measurement 2025-03-12T13:37:53Z Public-private cooperation 2025-03-12T13:37:48Z State and local government operations 2025-03-12T13:37:28Z Public Lands and Natural Resources 2025-02-27T19:22:06Z 00 2025-01-16 Introduced in Senate 2025-07-25T21:42:18Z This bill establishes forest management requirements for federal lands, particularly with respect to reducing wildfires. 

For example, the bill establishes annual goals to increase (1) the number of acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land that are mechanically thinned (i.e., a management process related to the removal of trees and vegetation); and (2) the number of acres of Forest Service and BLM land treated by prescribed fire. By FY2029, the goals must be to increase the number of acres of each by at least 40% compared to the average number of acres of each in FY2019-FY2023.

The bill also directs the Forest Service and the BLM to (1) implement standardized procedures for tracking data relating to hazardous fuels reduction activities they carry out, and (2) develop a strategy to identify opportunities to use livestock grazing as a wildfire risk reduction tool on federal land. Additionally, the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior must establish a deployment and test bed pilot program for wildfire prevention, detection, communication, and mitigation technologies.

The bill mandates use of existing authorities for expedited environmental review for certain forest land at high risk from wildfire, insects, or disease.

Finally, the bill provides local governments and Indian tribes the right to intervene in lawsuits concerning certain projects on federal land that (1) reduce risks posed by wildfire, insects, or disease; or (2) generate revenue from harvesting timber.

]]> Wildfire Prevention Act of 2025 Display Title 45 Wildfire Prevention Act of 2025 2026-09-01T11:03:19Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Wildfire Prevention Act of 2025 2025-02-20T02:08:20Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to address the forest health crisis on the National Forest System and public lands, and for other purposes. 2025-02-20T02:03:22Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-01-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s140is/xml/BILLS-119s140is.xml 2026-06-10 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.