Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
Introduced
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.
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- 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.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Bigger grants and longer program authorization
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
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 wildland‑urban interface. It would require federal agencies to include a staffing plan to support local collaboratives. The bill would also raise two program thresholds from 10 to 20 and from 2 to 4.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Merkley, Jeff [D-OR]
OR • D
Cosponsors
Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
ID • R
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
OR • D
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID]
ID • R
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Sen. Bennet, Michael F. [D-CO]
CO • D
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
MT • R
Sponsored 5/7/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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