With the 2026 midterm elections behind us, Congress must turn its attention to the critical challenges facing America’s working forests and the family forestry businesses and private forest landowners who sustain them. The lame-duck session presents an important opportunity to advance meaningful, bipartisan policy solutions before the end of the year. In a new op-ed…
The Forest Landowners Association (FLA) joined a coalition of 46 organizations representing 22 states and the national forestry and forest products sectors in urging U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins to ensure private forest landowners, timber producers, and eligible forestry operations are included in the Harvest Fuel Relief Program. Click here to read…
The Forest Landowners Association applauds Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, and Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) for introducing H.R. 10906, the Strong American Wood Act, comprehensive legislation aimed at strengthening the U.S. forest products sector, expanding domestic markets for forest products and biomass, addressing unfair trade practices, and improving…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Forest Landowners Association today joined a coalition of leading forestry, conservation, and landowner organizations in urging Congress to take action before the end of the year to address the growing economic and disaster challenges facing America’s private forest landowners. Read the full coalition letter to Congress here. The coalition letter calls on…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Forest Landowners Association applauds the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for its unanimous passage of the Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act (WEPA), bipartisan legislation that would help states and communities more effectively use prescribed fire as a tool to reduce wildfire risk and protect America’s forests. “Forest landowners understand the importance…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Forest Landowners Association applauds the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry for advancing the Agricultural Act of 2026, an important step toward delivering a new Farm Bill for farmers, ranchers, forest landowners, and rural communities across the country. FLA is particularly grateful to Chairman John Boozman (R-AR) for including…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Forest Landowners Association today urged the U.S. Senate to work across party lines and pass a bipartisan Farm Bill that gives America’s family forestry businesses the certainty they need to keep their working forests healthy, productive, and resilient. While the Senate Agriculture Committee did not advance the Agricultural Act of 2026…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Forest Landowners Association applauds Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) and Representatives Cliff Bentz (R-OR) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) for introducing the bipartisan, bicameral Wildfire Reduction Market Expansion Act of 2026 (H.R. 9827 / S. 5087). The legislation would modernize the Renewable Fuel Standard by expanding the definition of…
The Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act (S.629), a years-long federal policy priority championed by FLA, has officially become law. This is more than an important legislative victory—it marks the first time in FLA’s history that one of our federal legislative priorities has been enacted as a standalone bill. That achievement didn’t happen overnight. For years,…
After years of advocacy, legislation to expedite disaster recovery for forest landowners has passed Congress and is being sent to the President’s desk. FLA applauds the leadership of Senator Deb Fischer and Representative Julia Letlow for championing S.629 and H.R.1011, and we extend our sincere thanks to the bipartisan cosponsors who helped move this long-overdue…