HB 2925-S.E - DIGEST
(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Requires the department of natural resources to: (1) Make every reasonable effort to accommodate a livestock owner's request to retrieve or care for animals in his or her charge that are at risk due to a wildfire;

(2) Incorporate the implementation of this act into prefire season training or coordination conducted in local communities that contain active grazing areas; and

(3) Include language that explains the right of access, and associated assumption of liability, in the text of a grazing lease.

Allows the department of natural resources to only prohibit livestock owners, or the owner's employees or agents, from retrieving or caring for livestock that are lawfully present on the public lands during a fire suppression response if doing so is reasonably necessary to prevent interference with a direct, active fire response.