# Forest Stewardship (Working Forest Lands)

**Agency:** Agriculture (USDA)  
**Account:** State, Private, and Tribal Forestry  
**Source document:** Forest Service · p. 40  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/agriculture/forest-stewardship-working-forest-lands  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 12.0 |

## 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

Table FS-33. Forest Stewardship Detail Table (thousands of dollars) Forest Stewardship - Justification of Changes request eliminates funding for the State, Private, and Tribal Forestry account to ensure fiscal responsibility with American taxpayer dollars and to better balance the appropriate roles of federal and State governments. The Budget request anchors to a return to federalism and encourages increasing State authority to fund the management of State and privately-owned forests. While the Budget does not request new funding for this account, it will strategically utilize existing carryover balances to responsibly and effectively close this


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Agriculture (USDA) › Forest Service › State, Private, and Tribal Forestry › Forest Stewardship (Working Forest Lands)


*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.*