Expresses the sense of the Congress that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) should incorporate consideration of global warming and sea-level rise into the comprehensive conservation plans for coastal national wildlife refuges and for other purposes. 

The Resolution recognizes the causes and effects of global warming and the resulting sea-level rise. It also recognizes the impacts on the National Wildlife Refuge System’s ability to conserve species and habitats and protect its estimated 1,100,000 acres of coastal wetlands located in 159 coastal national wildlife refuges.  Thus, the resolution states the sense of Congress that:

(1) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service should incorporate consideration of the effects of global warming and sea-level rise into the comprehensive conservation plan for each coastal national wildlife refuge;

(2) each such comprehensive conservation plan should address, with respect to the refuge concerned, how global warming and sea-level rise will affect

a. the ecological integrity of the refuge;
b. the distribution, migration patterns, and abundance of fish, wildlife, and plant populations and related habitats of the refuge;
c. the archaeological and cultural values of the refuge;
d. such areas within the refuge that are suitable for use as administrative sites or visitor facilities; and
e. opportunities for compatible wildlife dependent recreational uses of the refuge; and

(3) the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, in consultation with the United States Geological Survey, should conduct an assessment of the potential impacts of global warming and sea-level rise on coastal national wildlife refuges.

Note: The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-57) amended the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to require that the Secretary of the Interior prepare a comprehensive conservation plan for each national wildlife refuge by 2012.