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This bill, the America's Conservation Enhancement Act, aims to improve protections for wildlife in the United States. Key provisions of the bill include: - Establishing a prize competition, the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize, to encourage technological innovation in reducing human-predator conflicts using non-lethal means. - Creating a grant program to help states and tribes compensate livestock producers for losses due to depredation by federally protected species and fund proactive non-lethal activities to reduce those losses. - Allowing the Secretary of the Interior to issue depredation permits to livestock producers authorizing the taking of black vultures or common ravens to prevent them from taking livestock. - Establishing a Chronic Wasting Disease Task Force to coordinate research and management efforts to address this disease affecting deer, elk, and moose populations. - Reauthorizing and providing funding for the Chesapeake Bay Program, Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act, and creating a new Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense grant program. - Establishing the National Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships program to encourage collaborative efforts to protect and restore fish habitats across the country. The bill aims to enhance wildlife conservation, address wildlife diseases and conflicts, and promote habitat restoration and protection through federal coordination and partnerships with state, tribal, and local entities.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

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