The bill is a memorial from the Washington State Legislature addressing concerns regarding the consolidation of wildland fire programs as directed by President Trump's Executive Order 14308 and subsequent Secretarial Order 3443. The memorial highlights the need for a coordinated and effective federal wildfire response, especially in light of significant staff reductions within the United States Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining and ideally strengthening Washington State's wildfire response capabilities due to uncertainties surrounding federal firefighting resources.
The memorial requests that the federal government take specific actions to ensure adequate wildfire response capacity, including ensuring that the Department of Interior's Wildland Fire Service is fully operational and staffed by April 1, 2026, delaying further reorganizations until wildfire activity decreases, and carefully implementing any unification processes to avoid reducing firefighting capacity in 2027. The memorial calls for immediate transmission of its contents to key federal officials, including members of Congress and the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior.