Forest Products

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Table FS-50. Forest Products Details Table (thousands of dollars) Forest Products - Justification of Changes Budget prioritizes management activities to accomplish the goals of E.O. 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production and P.L. 119-21, Working Families Tax Cut Act. The production of timber, lumber, paper, bioenergy, and other wood products are critical to our Nation's well-being. The Forest Products program is vital to the sustainment of the pipeline of wood products coming from NFS lands which ensures ongoing support to local The Forest Service intends to increase the utilization of silviculture prescriptions such as designation by prescription and designation by description as well as virtual boundaries, where appropriate, to reduce the cost of marking timber and increase the volume of available timber offered for sale. Additionally, the program will invest in ongoing partnerships and continue to innovate and use all available discretionary and mandatory resources along with tools such as Good Neighbor Authority and Stewardship Authorities to achieve a steady increase in the volume of timber sold and harvested from NFS lands. This increased request also supports entry into some of the 40 long-term contracts required over 10 years by the Working Families Tax Cut Act. Forest Products - Status of Programs The Forest Products program leads implementation of the Forest Service timber program, which includes the planning, preparation, and execution of timber sales, stewardship contracts and agreements, and Good Neighbor Authority. These activities encourage and support healthy and resilient forests and communities. The Forest Products program is key to executing the President's E.O. 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production. Successful vegetation management ensures that National Forests are conserved, restored, productive, and made more resilient while enhancing water resources and offering goods and services critical to sustaining rural economies. This program benefits local communities, particularly those communities that have a timber industry presence, by ensuring a consistent supply of commercial timber. Forest products include materials derived from a forest for commercial use such as lumber and paper, and "special forest products" such as medicinal herbs, fungi, edible fruits and nuts, and other natural products. Critical to this success is the Forest Service's partnership with county, The Forest Service sold 2.94 BBF of timber in FY 2025, which represents forest management treatments across NFS lands. This was an increase from the FY 2024 accomplishment of 2.9 BBF. Factors contributing to the increase include a strategic focus on American Timber Production as outlined in E.O. 14225, resulting in prioritization of timber outputs in timber sale offers, a slight decrease in no bids on timber sale offers, and efficient utilization of resources to support timber sale operations. Wildfires continued to divert resources from planning and timber sale preparation and prohibit access and the salability of timber in impacted locations. Despite these challenges, the Forest Service continued to deliver a diversified forest products program, supporting the vital role of stable timber supplies and forest products infrastructure for healthy landscapes and communities. The Forest Service awarded or issued over 110,000 contracts and permits in FY 2025; at the end of August FY 2025, a total of 8.3 BBF (an increase of 15 percent as compared to 7.2 BBF in FY 2024) were under contract with industry to be harvested. A total value of nearly $153 million was awarded in FY 2025. The receipts from these sales will be leveraged to Various special forest management program funding sources contributed to the timber volume sold, which included Salvage Sale collections and other permanent and trust funds. In FY 2025, successes included restoration efforts through the Good Neighbor Authority, which resulted in 327 million board feet (MMBF) and stewardship contracting and agreements, which accounted for 838 MMBF. In FY 2025, the decrease in market value for materials such as pulpwood, non-sawtimber, and biomass impacted the Forest Service's volume of forest product sales. The decline of these markets has impacted the ability to remove this material, especially in the eastern regions. The closure of dimensional milling infrastructure across the country has affected the Forest Service's ability to sell timber, specifically in western regions where distances to milling facilities that process timber products made sale offers uneconomic due to the transportation costs. Despite these obstacles, the Forest Service provided support to prevent these closures, particularly where infrastructure is near federal land with high or very high priority for ecological restoration. Through its Stewardship Authority, the Forest Service leveraged the resources and mutual interests of conservation partners to further achieve active forest management objectives in support of increasing American Timber Production under USDA Secretarial Memo 1078-006 9 and E.O. 14225. The Forest Service worked with partners to implement the newly developed National Active Forest Management Strategy (NAFMS) 10 to realize the multiple benefits of active forest management including production of timber, biomass, habitat enhancement, fuels reduction, and forage production. This work supports local economies dependent on timber production, livestock grazing, recreation, hunting, and fishing. The stewardship authority allowed the Forest Service to enter into agreements and contracts with partners for up to 20 years, depending on the location and the needs of the project ensuring a long- term predictable supply of manageable resources for industry. The Forest Products program fostered local and national level partnerships through its stewardship program reducing wildfire risk and improving forest health. The table in the special exhibit section shows the acres awarded, the number of contracts or agreements awarded, and the volume awarded from FY 2021 to FY 2025. The number of contracts or agreements awarded includes those where forest products are exchanged for service activities and where excess stewardship contracting funds are used for activities without the exchange of forest products. The Forest Service is focused on meeting critical challenges

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