Fix Our Forests Act

The bill directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to designate fireshed management areas drawn from the top 20 percent of high-risk firesheds and to carry out fireshed management projects in them, including hazardous fuels reduction, fuel and fire breaks, removal of hazard and dead trees, prescribed and cultural burning, and grazing. It establishes an interagency Fireshed Center run jointly by the Forest Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, and a public Fireshed Registry. It exempts the designation of fireshed management areas and the fireshed assessments from the National Environmental Policy Act and routes projects through existing categorical exclusions. It raises Healthy Forests Restoration Act categorical-exclusion acreage caps from 3,000 acres to 10,000 acres. It rewrites litigation rules for these projects: a court may not enjoin a covered action unless the plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits and the action poses a risk of proximate and substantial environmental harm with no other remedy, and it sets a 120-day deadline to file suit. It bars reinitiating Endangered Species Act consultation on a land-management plan when a new species is listed or new information emerges. It extends good-neighbor and stewardship-contracting authorities, and creates a Wildland Fire Management Casualty Assistance Program for the next of kin of firefighters and support personnel injured or killed in the line of duty.

At least 148 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 834 quarterly reports filed by 48 lobbying firms and by 80 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

121 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 1462, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation; Placer County Water Agency; National Water Resources Association; Megafire Action; Grand Canyon State Cooperative Association. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 143 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.