This bill authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to enter into contracts, grants, and agreements with various entities for ecosystem restoration activities. These partnerships, which can include State forestry agencies, local private or nonprofit entities, institutions of higher education, Indian Tribes, and multistate coalitions , are specifically for the collection and maintenance of native seeds and the production of seedlings for revegetation . Furthermore, the legislation expands the scope of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program to explicitly cover these seed collection and seedling production efforts, while also adding institutions of higher education as eligible partners for such restoration work.