Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
Federal Agencies Directed to Expand Timber Production and Speed Approvals
What it does
Agencies must issue guidance, streamline permitting, set timber-sale targets, and pursue legal changes to expand domestic timber production.
Real-world impact
- Sets targets for annual timber sales from federal public lands.
- Shortens permitting and speeds endangered-species consultations for forestry projects.
- Encourages more forest thinning, salvage, and wildfire-risk treatments on public lands.
Topics
Summary
This executive order directs federal agencies to increase domestic timber, lumber, paper, and other wood product production and to speed up forest management and wildfire-risk projects. It instructs the departments that manage public lands and national forests to issue new guidance, consider administrative exclusions to environmental review, and submit legislative proposals to expand timber authorities.
The order affects people who work in timber and construction, local communities at wildfire risk, and federal permitting officials; it aims to boost jobs, lower construction and energy costs, and increase national self-reliance.
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