Letter from NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator in Response to Executive Order 14225
June 18, 2025
This report is in response to a requirement in Section 2(b) of Executive Order (EO) 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Productions.
Executive Order 14225 directs that "Within 60 days of this order, the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and the Secretary of Commerce, through the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, shall complete a strategy on USFS and BLM forest management projects under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1536) to improve the speed of approving forestry projects."
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce are submitting separate, but coordinated, strategies to fulfill this requirement within the EO.