This bill reauthorizes and expands the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership program, which is a federal initiative that helps restore and improve public lands. The program currently focuses on things like reducing wildfire risk, improving wildlife habitat, and enhancing water resources. This bill adds two new purposes to the program: helping landscapes recover from wildfires that have already happened, and improving soil, water, and other natural resources more broadly.

The bill also requires better coordination between two federal agencies that work on these issues—the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Forest Service. They'll need to share their management plans with each other and work together using the best available science. Additionally, the bill expands what the program can consider when choosing projects, now including the impacts that wildfires leave behind, not just the risk of future fires. It also ties project selection to state-level plans for forests, wildlife, and water.

Finally, the bill extends the program's funding authorization through 2029, giving it a longer timeline to operate. The changes are relatively modest adjustments to an existing program, designed to make it more comprehensive in addressing wildfire recovery and natural resource management while ensuring the two main federal agencies involved are working together effectively.