Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act

To establish the policy of the Federal Government to use all practicable means and measures to assist wildlife populations in adapting to and surviving the effects of global warming, and for other purposes.

5/16/2007--Introduced.
Global Warming Wildlife Survival Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate a national strategy for mitigating the impacts of global warming on wildlife populations and to revise it within five years after its promulgation and not later than every ten years thereafter to reflect new information.
Requires the Secretary to establish a science advisory board to:
(1) provide scientific and technical advice and recommendations on the impacts of global warming on wildlife and its habitat, areas of habitat of particular importance, and strategies and mechanisms to mitigate such impacts in the management of federal lands and in other federal wildlife conservation programs;
(2) advise the National Global Warming and Wildlife Science Center and review the quality of the Center's research programs; and
(3) advise the Secretary regarding the best science available.
Requires the Secretary to establish the National Global Warming and Wildlife Science Center within the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to:
(1) conduct scientific research on national issues related to the impacts of global warming on wildlife and its habitat and mechanisms for adaptation or mitigation of such impacts; and
(2) provide scientific support to federal land management agencies and federal wildlife agencies regarding such issues.
Authorizes the establishment of a State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior, to provide wildlife conservation grants for the planning, development, and implementation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habitat, including species that are not hunted or fished.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Norman Dicks [D, WA-6]
• and 2 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Jay Inslee [D, WA-1]
  • Rep. H. James Saxton [R, NJ-3]
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Committees

• House Agriculture
• 3 more
  • House Agriculture
  • House Natural Resources
  • House Natural Resources
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Amendments

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Amendments to H.R.2338

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
May 16, 2007

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• Jun 26, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
• May 22, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
• May 16, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture
• May 16, 2007: Referred to House Natural Resources
• May 16, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• May 16, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1063-1064)
• Introduced on May 16, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.2204

Related Issue Areas:

• Environmental protection
• Air pollution
• Animals
• Budgets
• 23 more
• Climate change
• Department of the Interior
• Ecological research
• Endangered species
• Environmental assessment
• Environmental monitoring
• Executive departments
• Executive reorganization
• Federal advisory bodies
• Freshwater resources conservation
• Grants-in-aid
• Habitat conservation
• Marine resources
• Marine resources conservation
• Migratory bird conservation
• Natural resources
• Planning
• Public lands
• Research centers
• Science policy
• Water resources
• Wildlife conservation
• Wildlife refuges

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