Updates USDA conservation programs to help wildlife move safely across the landscape and to support “virtual fencing” tools for smarter livestock management. It adds definitions for habitat connectivity and big game species, allows new cost‑share payments on CRP grasslands, adjusts a rental payment cap, expands EQIP to fund habitat connectivity projects, and requires practice standards to include nonstructural livestock‑distribution methods like virtual fencing. Agencies are directed to encourage and assist projects that protect migration corridors.

Creates a new high‑priority research area for virtual fencing. Research and extension grants may study barriers to adoption and how virtual fencing affects natural and cultural resources, including sensitive streams and wetlands and important winter or stopover habitats for native big game species.