# Forest Legacy (Great American Outdoors Act)

**Agency:** Agriculture (USDA)  
**Account:** State, Private, and Tribal Forestry  
**Source document:** Forest Service · p. 41  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/agriculture/forest-legacy-great-american-outdoors-act  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 88.1 |
| FY2027 | request | 92.3 |

## Agriculture (USDA) discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $20.40B, FY2026 $33.40B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Funds the Forest Legacy Program, which protects environmentally important private forest lands from conversion through conservation easements and land acquisition, keeping them as working forests open to recreation.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Agriculture (USDA) › Forest Service › State, Private, and Tribal Forestry › Forest Legacy (Great American Outdoors Act)


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*