State, Private, & Tribal Forestry, which provides technical and financial assistance to nonfederal landowners, would be cut entirely.
National Forest System, which oversees the management of federal grasslands and forests, would be cut by 24% compared to last year’s funding. Budget seeks to eliminate the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, while quadrupling the Forest Products line item—which funds the federal timber sale program, among other activities—from $39 million to $175 million.
Capital Improvement & Maintenance, which supports USFS infrastructure, would be cut by 28% compared to last year’s funding.
Land Acquisition, which funds the acquisition and improvement of National Forest System lands, would be increased from $2.5 million to $7 million.
Wildland Fire Management Account and Reserve Fund, which funds the personnel, equipment, and immediate post-fire risk mitigation necessary for wildfire suppression on federal lands, would be moved entirely to DOI.
Join Beyond Plastics on Thursday, May 7 at 4 PM PT/ 7 PM ET for a free educational webinar to explore plastics’ impact on reproductive health. We’ll hear from Louie Psihoyos, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker and director of the new documentary film, The Plastic Detox, with Eric and Julie Isaac, one of the couples that is featured in the film that had tried to conceive for five years, Shanna Swan, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists and a professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine, and Judith Enck, former US EPA regional administrator and founder and president of the nonprofit advocacy group, Beyond Plastics.
State, Private, & Tribal Forestry, which provides technical and financial assistance to nonfederal landowners, would be cut entirely.
National Forest System, which oversees the management of federal grasslands and forests, would be cut by 24% compared to last year’s funding. Budget seeks to eliminate the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, while quadrupling the Forest Products line item—which funds the federal timber sale program, among other activities—from $39 million to $175 million.
Capital Improvement & Maintenance, which supports USFS infrastructure, would be cut by 28% compared to last year’s funding.
Land Acquisition, which funds the acquisition and improvement of National Forest System lands, would be increased from $2.5 million to $7 million.
Wildland Fire Management Account and Reserve Fund, which funds the personnel, equipment, and immediate post-fire risk mitigation necessary for wildfire suppression on federal lands, would be moved entirely to DOI.
Senate Appropriations Committee
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
On Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:
H.R. 7287 (Rep. Johnson of SD), “Lewis and Clark Regional Water System Expansion Feasibility Study Act” to increase water usage by the L&C RWS covering Minnesota-South Dakota-Iowa tri-state region
H.R. 7331 (Rep. Johnson of SD), “Dakota Mainstem Water Supply Project Feasibility Study Act” to tap the Missouri River to feed the same region
H.R. 8259 (Rep. Bentz), “Reclamation Project Consultation Improvement Act of 2026” to weaken endangered-species protections in furtherance of water supply projects
On Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, will hold an oversight hearing titled “Powering the 21st Century with American Copper.”
10 AM:
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Innovation and Safety Subcommittee Nuclear Power Plant Deregulation Bills