FY26 Trump Budget Request Details Released - New Wildfire Agency and Huge Cuts Outside WFM

[u/Flat-Suggestion-8373]

Here are some of the wildfire-related items in the FY26 budget blueprint that the White House released today (link below). Chiefly, it proposes a “new Federal Wildland Fire Service” under DOI. But also note significant changes in related areas, like the draconian cuts to the “non-fire” side of Forest Service (e.g., almost complete elimination of FS R&D, significant cut to already underfunded NFS activities, etc.).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fiscal-Year-2026-Discretionary-Budget-Request.pdf

[u/Prehistory_Buff]

These people know absolutely, literally nothing about Rx fire. They seriously think that we can timber sale out way out of firestorms. God, what is going to happen y'all?

[u/Amateur-Pro278 → u/Prehistory_Buff]

We sure as fuck ain't gonna Rx our way out either. THAT is a pipedream!