# Save Our Forests Act of 2025 - Plain Language Summary

## What This Bill Does

The Save Our Forests Act of 2025 is designed to strengthen the U.S. Forest Service by ensuring it has adequate staffing to manage national forests effectively. The bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use existing funds to hire additional Forest Service employees and to rehire workers who were fired or laid off between January 20 and February 25, 2025. The goal is to maintain the health, diversity, and productivity of the roughly 193 million acres of national forests across the country.

## Who Is Affected

**Forest Service employees** would be the most directly affected—those who were recently terminated would be reinstated, and new positions would be created. **The public** would benefit from improved forest management, including better maintenance of trails, facilities, and natural resources. **Outdoor recreation users**, **environmental advocates**, and **communities near national forests** would also benefit from more robust forest management and conservation efforts.

## Key Provisions

The bill contains two main directives:

1. **Staffing increases**: The Secretary must use previously appropriated funds to hire enough staff to properly manage national forests for current and future generations.

2. **Reinstatement of workers**: Any Forest Service employees who were involuntarily terminated between late January and late February 2025 must be rehired.

The bill also ensures that ongoing Forest Service projects funded through major legislation (including the Great American Outdoors Act and the Inflation Reduction Act) can continue without interruption.