Our national forests are damaged from decades of unsustainable logging, road building, wildfire suppression and urbanization. Restoration funding helps keep our national forests standing tall for future generations.
The U.S. Forest Service has made restoring damaged forests a priority. The Watershed Condition Framework initiative launched by the Forest Service helps the agency restore America’s watersheds.
Communities across the United States depend on the headwaters of rivers and streams for clean drinking water. But America’s water is at risk because our headwaters are increasingly harmed by threats like climate change.
Drinking water for 3,400 communities and 66 million Americans comes from watersheds in our national forests. Only half of these watersheds function properly, making restoration critical.
Until recently, the U.S. Forest Service operated under an outdated forest planning rule. The Obama administration is revising the planning rule to modernize our forest management.
