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The bill substantially expands conservation, recreation access, wildfire risk reduction, and ecosystem restoration in specified lands—benefiting residents, recreation users, and fisheries—while imposing economic limits on extractive uses, creating some taxpayer and management costs, and changing long-standing access and property expectations for local communities.
Residents in and near the designated areas (rural communities, visitors, and tribal communities) will face lower wildfire risk and benefit from planned fuel treatments, shaded fuel breaks, prescribed fire, and clarified emergency-response coordination.
Local communities, anglers, and tribal fishers gain improved water quality, restored aquatic habitat, and stronger protections for fisheries and watersheds through directed restoration and river designations.
Large new protected areas and river/wilderness designations preserve scenic landscapes and long-term recreation opportunities across hundreds of thousands of acres, benefiting recreation users and local quality of life.
Workers, extractive businesses, and some local governments lose potential economic opportunities because mining, new leasing, timber harvest, geothermal development, and some grazing are restricted or withdrawn in designated areas.
Taxpayers and federal budgets may face sizable costs for restoration, remediation, feasibility studies, and construction (including trail work), and implementing authorities may require redirected agency resources.
Many local users—motorized recreationists, outfitters, and some residents—will face new limits on motorized access, road building, and certain recreational uses that change longstanding access and business practices.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Designates a large restoration area, multiple wilderness and special management areas, directs restoration and fire plans, studies a new recreation trail, and preserves PG&E ROWs.
Introduced December 19, 2025 by Jared Huffman · Last progress December 19, 2025
Creates a large South Fork Trinity–Mad River Restoration Area in northern California and directs federal land managers to plan and carry out forest and watershed restoration, wildfire risk reduction, and visitor use improvements. Adds and expands multiple wilderness areas, establishes two Special Management Areas in National Forests, directs a feasibility study (and potential designation) for a Bigfoot National Recreation Trail, creates a partnership to remediate federal lands damaged by illegal cultivation, and requires mapping, planning, and protections for infrastructure such as PG&E rights-of-way. Sets deadlines and planning requirements (including collaborative public and Tribal input) for restoration and fire management plans, feasibility studies, and SMA management plans; preserves valid existing rights and private-property consent for trails; withdraws certain lands from disposal and mineral/geothermal leasing; and authorizes cooperative agreements for trail construction and maintenance.