H.R. 4892 — Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration Act of 2025

This section (1) authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into contracts, grants, or agreements with state forestry agencies, local private or nonprofit entities, institutions of higher education, Indian Tribes, and multistate coalitions for the collection and maintenance of native seeds (including from managed seed orchards) and the production of seedlings for revegetation, to carry out ecosystem restoration activities funded by the $2.13 billion authorization for FY2022-FY2026 (16 U.S.C. 6592a); and (2) revises the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (16 U.S.C. 7303(b)(7)) to expressly authorize such agreements for native seed collection and maintenance and seedling production and to add institutions of higher education as eligible partners.