White Oak Resiliency Act of 2025

This bill focuses on bringing back healthy white oak forests. It creates a national coalition of public, private, and nonprofit partners to coordinate work across boundaries and share ideas that remove barriers to restoring white oak trees . It launches five pilot projects in national forests to test restoration methods, and orders the Interior Department to assess where white oak can be restored on its lands and then run five pilot projects there, too . It sets up a new, voluntary program within 180 days to guide white oak and upland oak recovery, including grants and technical help managed through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, with a focus on cost‑effective projects and public outreach . The bill also directs a plan within one year to fix nationwide shortages of white oak seedlings at nurseries, supports research with land‑grant universities, and starts an NRCS effort to help private landowners re‑establish and better manage white oak on their land, improving forest health and wildlife habitat .

Key points:

• Who is affected: Private forest landowners (technical help), states, Tribes, local partners, nurseries, and research institutions; communities near national forests and wildlife that depend on oak habitat .
• What changes: A national coalition; 5 Forest Service pilot projects; Interior land assessment and 5 pilots; a new regeneration program with grants; a nursery capacity strategy; expanded research; NRCS on‑the‑ground assistance .
• When: Within 180 days, Interior publishes a white oak assessment and Agriculture starts the new program; after the assessment, Interior begins its pilots; within 1 year, Agriculture issues the national nursery strategy .