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Calendar No. 179
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-128
WILDLIFE INNOVATION AND LONGEVITY DRIVER
REAUTHORIZATION (WILD) ACT
DECEMBER 11, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. CARPER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 2395]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2395), to reauthorize wildlife habitat and con-
servation programs, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
The Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver Reauthorization
(WILD) Act, S. 2395, would reauthorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and the
Multinational Species Conservation Funds (MSCF).
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides technical
and financial assistance to private landowners to restore, enhance,
and manage private land to improve fish and wildlife habitats.
Since the program began operating in 1987, the USFWS has
partnered with more than 60,000 landowners to care for more than
7 million acres of habitat for wildlife and people across America.
In 2022, 250 USFWS biologists completed 1,877 wildlife habitat
projects across all states and U.S. territories, restoring and enhanc-
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