Promote active forest management to reduce forest fuels and prevent catastrophic wildfires.

Proven Forest Management Act of 2025 – Promotes active forest management to reduce forest fuels (dead and dying timber, etc.) and prevent catastrophic wildfires.

Zinke cosponsored legislation promoting active forest management to reduce fuels and prevent catastrophic wildfires.

Farm Bill Passes House: Zinke Secures Huge Wins to Repeal Cottonwood, Support Farmers & Ranchers, Improve Wildlife Conservation | Representative Ryan Zinke
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June 10, 2026 Latest News entry: "Zinke Introduces 2026 Great American Outdoors Act 250". The release says Zinke joined House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman and Ranking Member Jared Huffman in introducing GAOA 250.

Recent same-term legislative activity on public lands stewardship. This is adjacent to forest-management goals but does not directly show action on forest fuels or wildfire mitigation.

partial same_term A for effort

Representative Ryan Zinke |
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June 4, 2026 Latest News entries show Zinke's recent focus on appropriations and infrastructure, including "$17.5 Million in Zinke’s Infrastructure Requests and Many More Montana Priorities Head to the Floor for a Vote" after the FY27 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act passed committee markup.

Recent same-term appropriations work touching the Interior/Environment portfolio, but the release does not specifically mention forests, fuels reduction, prescribed fire, or wildfire prevention.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Press Releases | Representative Ryan Zinke
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The Clerk records Roll Call 25 for H.R. 471, the Fix Our Forests Act, on January 23, 2025. The measure passed 279-141, and the vote list records Representative Zinke, Republican of Montana, voting Yea.

Zinke cast a same-term House vote for the Fix Our Forests Act, a concrete legislative action advancing active forest management and wildfire-risk reduction policy.

delivered 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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Congress.gov lists H.R. 471 as the Fix Our Forests Act, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman, with status Passed House. The House passage action was January 23, 2025, by 279-141. CRS summarizes the bill as establishing federal forest-management requirements, including wildfire-threat reduction, expedited review of certain projects, fireshed management areas, an interagency Fireshed Center, and other wildfire-reduction requirements.

The official bill record shows the House advanced legislation matching the promise: forest management, wildfire-risk reduction, and faster project review. Zinke's individual vote is confirmed separately by the Clerk.

delivered same_term

H.R.471 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Fix Our Forests Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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The engrossed House text defines hazardous fuels management activities as vegetation management that reduces wildfire risk, including mechanical thinning, mastication, prescribed burning, cultural burning, timber harvest, and grazing. It also requires reporting on acres where hazardous fuels reduction activities were completed and their effectiveness in reducing wildfire risk.

The bill Zinke voted for directly covers forest-fuel reduction tools such as thinning, prescribed burning, timber harvest, and grazing, tying the vote to the specific substance of the promise.

delivered same_term

Text - H.R.471 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Fix Our Forests Act
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Congress.gov's latest action for H.R. 471 shows the bill in the Senate after House passage, with a March 6, 2025 Senate Agriculture subcommittee hearing. The tracker shows the bill had passed the House but had not completed the Senate, presidential, or enacted-law steps.

This tempers the finding: the active-management agenda was promoted and passed by the House, but H.R. 471 was not yet enacted as of the cited official status.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.471 - 119th Congress (2025-2026): Fix Our Forests Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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TIME reported that, while serving as Interior Secretary, Zinke described active forest management as a solution he wanted to use to prevent future fires and connected that approach to logging, timber salvage, and other forest-management techniques.

This supports that Zinke personally promoted active forest management as wildfire prevention during later federal executive service, although it predates the current House term and is reported rather than an official action record.

delivered unknown A for effort

Secretary Zinke Says Climate Change Is Not Responsible for California Wildfires, Blames Environmentalists
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Executive Order 13855, signed December 21, 2018, set a federal policy to actively manage forests and other federal lands to reduce wildfire risk, cited dense trees and undergrowth as wildfire fuel, and directed the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to implement policies including hazardous-fuels reduction, forest-health treatments, prescribed burns, and mechanical thinning.

During the closing period of Zinke's Interior tenure, the administration issued an executive directive requiring Interior to pursue the active-management and fuel-reduction approach described in the promise. This is broader executive action, not Zinke-specific authorship.

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Executive Order 13855 - Promoting Active Management of America's Forests, Rangelands, and Other Federal Lands To Improve Conditions and Reduce Wildfire Risk
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