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This legislation establishes a comprehensive federal framework to help fish, wildlife, and plant species adapt to climate change and extreme weather. The bill creates a National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy overseen by a working group composed of federal agency heads, state representatives, and tribal leaders, who will coordinate efforts across all government levels and revise the strategy every year based on new climate science. Federal agencies must integrate climate adaptation measures into their conservation programs, while the bill also establishes a Climate Adaptation Science Center Network to provide research and tools supporting these adaptation efforts and creates an advisory committee of scientists and experts to guide implementation. States must develop their own adaptation plans within one year to remain eligible for federal funding distributed through existing conservation grant programs, with at least 2 percent of state funding reserved for tribal and Native Hawaiian climate priorities. The legislation emphasizes collaboration with Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations, protecting their traditional ecological knowledge, and ensuring that adaptation strategies address emerging climate threats like drought, flooding, wildfires, and changing species migration patterns.

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