---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 7301"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "7301"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/7301"
units:
  - "Chapter 92 — Forest Landscape Restoration"
---

# §7301. Purpose


The purpose of this chapter is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes through a process that—

- (1) encourages ecological, economic, and social sustainability;
- (2) leverages local resources with national and private resources;
- (3) facilitates the reduction of wildfire management costs, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes and reducing the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire; and
- (4) demonstrates the degree to which—
  - (A) various ecological restoration techniques—
    - (i) achieve ecological and watershed health objectives; and
    - (ii) affect wildfire activity and management costs; and
  - (B) the use of forest restoration byproducts can offset treatment costs while benefitting local rural economies and improving forest health.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–11, title IV, § 4001, Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1141.)