The White Oak Resiliency Act of 2025 directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of the Interior to coordinate a nationwide effort to restore white oak forests and increase the supply of white oak seedlings. The bill establishes a White Oak Restoration Initiative Coalition to recommend policy changes, creates five pilot restoration projects in national forests and on Interior Department lands, and launches a voluntary grant program administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to help landowners restore white oak on their property. It also requires the Forest Service to develop a strategy within one year to address the nationwide shortage of white oak seedlings in tree nurseries, directs research partnerships with land-grant universities on white oak genetics and disease resistance, and establishes a Natural Resources Conservation Service initiative to assist private landowners with white oak restoration. The legislation does not specify total funding amounts but authorizes the use of existing Department of Agriculture conservation accounts and requires a coalition report to Congress within two years of enactment.
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