r/Wildfire • u/Flat-Suggestion-8373 • May 02 '25

News (General) FY26 Trump Budget Request Details Released - New Wildfire Agency and Huge Cuts Outside WFM

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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

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u/Prehistory_Buff May 02 '25

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?

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u/kubotalover May 02 '25

They go together for sure but stem removal is the first step. Definitely don’t need the fuels shop following up every sale with rx fire. The costs are too damn high. Wait 5 or ten years for a maintenance burn.

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u/SientoQueMerezcoMas May 03 '25

Who cares about the cost? We’re a service not a business. These are mostly fire-adapted ecosystems.

Timber sales only impacted the larger structure and arrangement of fuels, they do nothing to address fine fuel loadings, duff, brush, timber litter, etc.

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u/kubotalover May 04 '25

Your costs affect the feasibility of timber sales. Pay for your own treatments if you want to burn everything