Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act of 2025
Congress proposes matching grants for wildlife corridors, crossings, and migration research
Stalled
No legislative action in over 90 days.
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Creates a new Interior Department grant program to help states, tribes, and partners improve wildlife movement areas.
- Grant money could pay for things like wildlife-friendly fences, habitat leases and easements, safer road designs, and projects that reduce animal-car crashes.
- Most projects would need at least a 10% non-federal match, but the match can be waived for tribes, disadvantaged communities, or persistent-poverty areas.
- Sets up a separate research program to help states and tribes collect and analyze migration data, and continues USGS work to map movement areas.
- Adds a coordinator role at Interior and says the program can’t force non-voluntary changes to farming, ranching, forestry, energy/mining access, or private property rights.
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Milestones
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
Votes
No votes have been recorded for this legislation yet.
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Advocacy/press statement supporting the bill and describing its purpose: authorizing/continuing federal migration-corridor and connectivity programs through partnerships and voluntary conservation.
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Press release describing the bill’s intent to reconnect habitats and support state/Tribal and landowner collaboration to sustain wildlife migration routes and reduce fragmentation impacts.
Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act of 2025
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