Expediting Forest Restoration and Recovery Act of 2025

Key Points

• Requires the Agriculture Department to speed up forest projects that reduce wildfire fuel and control insects and tree disease in certain national forest areas.
• In some areas where timber work is allowed, the Forest Service would have to use a faster, “shortcut” environmental review process to move projects along.
• In other areas (like places with bigger resource concerns), the Forest Service would still do fuller environmental reviews, but the bill narrows what alternatives must be studied.
• Keeps some places off-limits for this faster process, like designated wilderness and most roadless areas, with limited exceptions.
• Lets states keep and reuse money from timber sales under certain state-federal forest agreements to fund more restoration work, and requires yearly public reporting on acres treated.