Reauthorize and extend collaborative forest landscape restoration programs to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health.

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Reauthorization Act of 2025 – Extends successful forest restoration efforts that reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health

Zinke cosponsored a bill to extend forest restoration efforts aimed at reducing wildfire risk and improving forest health.

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The enacted FY2026 interior appropriations law set aside $31 million for the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund and temporarily increased the program cap from 10 to 20 projects and the per-project limit from 2 to 4.

This is concrete federal support that extends CFLRP capacity, but it is an appropriations rider rather than a standalone reauthorization.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.6938 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Congress.gov lists H.R.6938 as Public Law 119-74, enacted January 23, 2026. The text deposits $31,000,000 in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund and temporarily applies higher limits by substituting 20 for 10 projects and 4 for 2 projects.

FY2026 enacted appropriations funded CFLRP and temporarily expanded program capacity, materially advancing but not fully reauthorizing the program.

partial same_term A for effort

Text - H.R.6938 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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The Forest Service describes CFLRP as bringing communities, partners, and the agency together to restore forest health, with active management practices that reduce wildfire risk. It says 31 projects have received funding and 16 are currently funded.

Official program page confirms the promise’s target program remains active and tied to forest health and wildfire-risk reduction.

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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration | U.S. Forest Service
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Section 8629 amended CFLRP to allow one-time project extensions and changed the authorization from $40,000,000 for FY2009-FY2019 to $80,000,000 for FY2019-FY2023.

The last clear statutory reauthorization before Zinke’s current House service ran through FY2023; this frames why FY2026 funding/cap language is only partial rather than full reauthorization.

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Public Law 115-334 - Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
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The 2009 law established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program to select and fund ecological restoration treatments for priority forest landscapes.

Original authorizing statute confirms that reauthorizing/extending CFLRP requires action on this specific statutory program, not merely broad forest policy.

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Public Law 111-11 - Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
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The House Clerk records H.R.471, the Fix Our Forests Act, passing 279-141 on January 23, 2025; Ryan Zinke of Montana voted Yea.

Zinke took a concrete pro-forest-management floor vote during the same term, supporting an effort badge, but this bill is not proof of full CFLRP reauthorization.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 25, H.R.471 Fix Our Forests Act, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
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