Bill > HR2235

This bill, known as the Habitat Connectivity on Working Lands Act of 2025, aims to improve wildlife habitat connectivity and migration corridors by modifying several existing agricultural conservation programs. The bill introduces new definitions for "habitat connectivity" and "big game species", and makes several key changes to federal conservation programs. These changes include expanding the Regional Conservation Partnership Program to explicitly focus on wildlife habitat connectivity, allowing producers with grasslands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to receive additional financial support for ecological improvements, and increasing the payment limitation for CRP rental payments from $50,000 to $125,000. The bill also directs the Secretary of Agriculture to incorporate nonstructural livestock management methods like virtual fencing into conservation practice standards and ensure technical assistance is available for practices that support habitat connectivity. Additionally, the legislation encourages conservation of landscape corridors that allow native big game species to move between habitats, with a goal of preserving biodiversity and helping ecosystems become more resilient to various environmental stressors. The bill also provides for research grants to study virtual fencing technology and its potential impacts on natural resources and wildlife habitats.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2235/all-info