Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to develop, within 18 months, a strategy for using livestock grazing to reduce wildfire risk on federal forest and public lands.

Official title: Strategic Grazing to Reduce Risk of Wildfire Act

Next stop Senate floor: awaiting a vote

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Introduced 05-JUN-2025

Referred 05-JUN-2025

Approved by committee 04-MAR-2026

Reported 23-JUL-2026

On the calendar 23-JUL-2026

Key points

Requires the strategy to be developed in coordination with federal grazing permit and lease holders and with states, tribes, utilities, and firefighting agencies, and posted on the Department of Agriculture or Interior website.
Directs the strategy to consider targeted grazing to reduce hazardous fuels and invasive grasses like cheatgrass, including on land near communities, and grazing on vacant allotments during drought, wildfire, or other disasters.
Requires that vacant allotments used during disasters be chosen to avoid significant management challenges, with permittees returned to their original allotments as soon as practicable.
States that the bill does not affect existing livestock grazing programs or the permit requirements of the Taylor Grazing Act.

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Policy area

Public Lands and Natural Resources

Sponsor Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) Cosponsors · 1

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1 Republican