Improve wildlife habitat connectivity and wildlife movement on working lands.

The bill directs USDA to provide more resources and incentives for farmers and ranchers to improve habitat connectivity and wildlife movement on working lands

Zinke supported a provision directing USDA to incentivize habitat connectivity and wildlife movement on working lands.

Farm Bill Passes House: Zinke Secures Huge Wins to Repeal Cottonwood, Support Farmers & Ranchers, Improve Wildlife Conservation | Representative Ryan Zinke
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The House website's latest-news section on June 10, 2026 says Zinke introduced the 2026 Great American Outdoors Act 250, with recent June 4 items also showing he is moving public-lands and agriculture appropriations priorities.

Recent official House-site activity shows Zinke is still advancing public-lands-related legislation, but this does not directly document habitat connectivity or wildlife-movement implementation during the 2026-06-18 to 2026-06-20 lookback window.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Representative Ryan Zinke |
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The article says Zinke is a cosponsor of the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act, which would help states, tribes, and federal agencies study and protect animal corridors, and notes his earlier Interior secretarial order directing Western states to protect big-game habitat and migration pathways.

This is concrete evidence of partial delivery on the promise: Zinke has backed legislation and prior executive-branch action aimed at wildlife movement and habitat connectivity, though it falls short of full delivery and is older than the current lookback window.

partial same_term A for effort

Less than 20 red wolves remain in the wild. We had a plan to save them.
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The Interior Department order signed by Secretary Ryan Zinke directed DOI bureaus to work with Montana and other western states to enhance big-game winter range and migration corridor habitat, assess migration data in land-use planning, work with private landowners and highway departments on fencing that impedes movement, and avoid or minimize development that fragments crucial migration corridors.

Zinke used executive authority as Interior Secretary to create a concrete habitat-connectivity and migration-corridor initiative. It is strong evidence of action on wildlife movement, but it was focused mainly on federal lands and state partnerships, not proof that the broader working-lands promise was fully delivered.

partial unknown A for effort

Order No. 3362: Improving Habitat Quality in Western Big-Game Winter Range and Migration Corridors
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Senator Padilla's official release says Representatives Ryan Zinke and Don Beyer led companion House legislation to support state, tribal, and local efforts to strengthen wildlife habitat connectivity and migration corridors, and that the bill would help wildlife move across federal, state, tribal, and private lands.

During Zinke's current House service, he advanced a bipartisan legislative vehicle directly aimed at wildlife habitat connectivity and migration corridors, including private lands. The release documents effort and policy alignment, but not enactment or completed implementation.

partial same_term A for effort

Padilla, Zinke, Beyer Announce Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Habitat Connectivity and Migration Corridors
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The fact sheet identifies Ryan Zinke as a House sponsor and says the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act would support states, tribes, and private landowners in improving habitat connectivity and migration corridors, establish a Wildlife Movement and Migration Corridor Program, fund state and tribal migration research, allow Partners for Fish and Wildlife funds for terrestrial connectivity, and support USGS corridor mapping.

The bill framework closely matches the promise, especially its working-lands and private-landowner component. Because it describes proposed programs rather than enacted law, it supports partial credit with an effort badge.

partial same_term A for effort

Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act Fact Sheet
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KULR8 reported that Zinke reintroduced the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act in the new Congress, describing it as building on Secretarial Order 3362 and providing funding for conservation work supporting big-game wildlife migration corridors and habitat connectivity. The article also quotes Zinke saying he is committed to pushing the bills across the finish line and getting them signed into law.

The 2025 reintroduction shows continued concrete legislative effort in the same House term, while the need to push the bill to signature indicates the promise had not been fully delivered as law at that point.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressman Ryan Zinke reintroduces conservation bills brought in previous session
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Vox reported that Zinke implemented a secretarial order directing western states to protect big-game habitat and migration pathways and that he was a cosponsor of the Wildlife Movement Through Partnerships Act with Don Beyer and Alex Padilla, a bill that would help states, tribes, and federal agencies study and protect animal corridors.

This secondary reporting corroborates both the earlier executive action and the current legislative effort, but also frames wildlife-crossing and corridor programs as uncertain rather than fully secured. It supports partial fulfillment, not full delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

Less than 20 red wolves remain in the wild. We had a plan to save them.
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