Promoting Effective Forest Management Act of 2024

A bill to address the forest health crisis on the National Forest System and public lands, and for other purposes.

Subjects

Public Lands and Natural Resources

Promoting Effective Forest Management Act of 2023

This bill establishes additional requirements for the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to address forest health on public lands.

For example, the agencies must

establish annual mechanical thinning targets for the National Forest System and public lands,
carry out regeneration harvests only in mature forests,
develop a strategy to increase the use of livestock grazing to mitigate wildfires,
support logging training through apprenticeships, and
utilize specified streamlined authorities for environmental review with respect to remedial action in certain vulnerable areas.

2023-09-20
Introduced in Senate
2023-09-20
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2023-10-25
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
2024-11-19
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
2024-11-21
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
2024-11-21
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
2024-11-21
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 592.

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