Forest Service

The change would reallocate the Forest Service’s firefighting budget to the new agency and fundamentally reorient its mission to one of extraction and recreation.

The president has also proposed a drastic restructuring that would transfer much of the Forest Service’s wildfire personnel to a new department located within the Department of the Interior, according to his 2026 budget plan.

Forest Service oversees more than half of the forestland in California and represents the largest federal firefighting entity.

“It isn’t just NOAA, it isn’t just the Forest Service, it isn’t just FEMA,” Swain said.

“The Forest Service continues to ensure it has the strongest and most prepared wildland firefighting force in the world,” said Larry Moore, a spokesman for the U.S.