# 119-s-1662: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2025

119-s-1662, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1662
- Congress: 119
- Title: Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-07
- Sponsor: Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] (D-OR)
- Cosponsors: 5
- Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Expands and reauthorizes the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program through 2034.** It strengthens monitoring and collaborative governance, broadens eligible restoration actions to include pathogens and watershed health, and raises funding and staffing support. - Local communities and water supplies: Projects can now target watershed health and drinking water sources and reduce wildfire risk in the wildland‑urban interface. - Tribes, States, and private landowners: The program explicitly allows restoration across land ownerships and permits new tools like conservation finance and good neighbor agreements to deliver projects. - Collaboratives and agencies: The bill requires a federal staffing plan, adds conflict resolution and governance support, raises numeric project thresholds, and doubles a referenced funding level to $8 million while extending authorization to 2034.

## Cosponsors (5)

- Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] (R-ID), 2025-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] (D-OR), 2025-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] (R-ID), 2025-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO] (D-CO), 2025-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (R-MT), 2025-05-07T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Bigger grants and longer program authorization: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would raise a funding cap in one program paragraph from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000. It would also change a statutory year reference from 2023 to 2034, extending the program authorization cited in that subsection.
- More restoration tools for rural communities: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would let projects target species and pathogens and add standardized monitoring goals. It would allow new finance and partnership tools, including conservation finance and good neighbor agreements. Proposals could work across State, Tribal, and private lands and inside the wild…

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## Sources
- [119-s-1662 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1662)

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- [119-s-3940: Access to Fair Financing for Opportunity and Resilient Development Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3940)
- [119-s-199: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-199)
- [119-s-1032: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1032)
- [119-s-1547: America the Beautiful Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1547)
- [119-s-356: Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-356)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1662 (as of 2025-12-21).