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Executive Order 14313, signed July 3, 2025, creates a new federal advisory body called the President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission. It directs federal land management agencies to shift their policies toward expanding public access, reducing regulatory barriers, and prioritizing conservation alongside economic use of public lands.
The order establishes the Commission, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and managed day-to-day by the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, with eight additional cabinet-level officials as members. Federal land agencies are now directed — to the extent practicable — to promote recreational access (hunting, fishing, hiking, off-roading, and others), cut bureaucratic delays, and pursue wildlife recovery through voluntary collaboration rather than regulation. The Commission is tasked with producing actionable recommendations to the President on conservation, water quality, and public land access. The order acknowledges more than $23 billion in deferred National Park Service maintenance and $10.8 billion in U.S. Forest Service deferred maintenance as problems the new policies aim to address. The order does not appropriate new funds; implementation is subject to existing appropriations.
Federal land management agencies — primarily the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service — must align their policies with the order’s five directives and coordinate through the new Commission. Hunters, anglers, hikers, off-road vehicle users, and other recreationists on public lands may see policy changes aimed at broadening their access. State wildlife agencies are specifically mentioned as partners in voluntary conservation efforts, giving them a more prominent role relative to federal regulatory approaches.