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This bill establishes research and extension grants focused on natural climate solutions, which are land management practices that help combat climate change. The legislation directs federal funding toward studying and promoting methods that store carbon or reduce greenhouse gas emissions across agricultural lands, grasslands, wetlands, and forests. The bill particularly emphasizes practices rooted in traditional ecological knowledge that also provide additional benefits like promoting biodiversity, increasing climate resilience, and reducing water runoff. The measure would amend existing agriculture law to add natural climate solutions as a high-priority research area, though specific funding amounts and timelines are not detailed in this initial version of the bill. Farmers, ranchers, foresters, and agricultural researchers would be the primary beneficiaries of these research and extension programs.

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