Executive Order 14308 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response
Signed: 2025-06-12 Published: 2025-06-18 Federal Register document: 2025-11358
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14308 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 116 (Wednesday, June 18, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 18, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 26175-26177] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-11358] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 116 / Wednesday, June 18, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 26175]] Executive Order 14308 of June 12, 2025 Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The devastation of the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires shocked the American people and highlighted the catastrophic consequences when State and local governments are unable to quickly respond to such disasters. In too many cases, including in California, a slow and inadequate response to wildfires is a direct result of reckless mismanagement and lack of preparedness. Wildfires threaten every region, yet many local government entities continue to disregard commonsense preventative measures. Firefighters across the country are forced to rely on outdated technology and face challenges in quickly responding to wildfires because of unnecessary regulation and bureaucracy. The Federal Government can empower State and local leaders by...
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Graded 2026-10-08
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Order stays inside federal stewardship of federal ground and executive supervision, expands state, tribal and community control, removes regulatory burdens, and imposes no rights limits, coercion, process denial or property transfer.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
President proceeds under Article II, Section 1 vesting of executive power and Article II, Section 3 duty to see the laws executed, directing officers over federal forests, grasslands and procurement. Control and disposition of federally owned ground rests on Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2. No new regulatory power is claimed; consolidation, technology help, interagency coordination and deregulatio… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
Order imposes no limits on speech, religion, press, assembly, petition under First Amendment; no limits on possession of arms under Second Amendment; no searches, seizures oracomprehensive monitoring under Fourth Amendment; no compelled testimony or criminal process changes under Fifth, Sixth, Seventh or Eighth Amendments. Technology roadmap direction to use artificial intelligence, open models, m… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
Order restricts no personal conduct, belief, speech, labor, travel or use of owned ground. It removes rather than imposes burdens by directing review of rules that impede prescribed burns, retardant use and response, and by offering voluntary partnerships, incentives and open tools to states, tribes and communities. Government bears the burden to support liberty here, and no compelling-interest in… -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Large-scale fire response crosses city, county and state lines and includes federally owned forests and grasslands, so sole control by persons, homes or one county is not workable. Order does not move control to higher level: Section 2 only merges two current federal fire programs for efficiency, Sections 3-5 use partnerships, compacts, voluntary incentives, open technology help, deregulation and … -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
Order creates no fines, forfeitures, arrests, property transfers or occupation of private ground. It directs review and possible revision of rules on prescribed burns, retardant use, biomass use, power-line vegetation work and utility litigation, with every step expressly consistent with governing law. No person is deprived of life, liberty or property without proper notice and proper proceeding u…
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