Joint Budget Committee considers delaying wolf reintroduction in Colorado to save money
From ColoradoPolitics.com
With a $1 billion hole in the 2025-26 state budget to fill, which includes tapping the state reserve below its required statutory levels, budget writers are looking for every coin in the couch cushions.
According to the Joint Budget Committee staff, one option is to delay introducing wolves on the Western Slope in 2025-26, which could save about $2.1 million in general fund dollars.
The analysis noted that in 2023-24, the second most significant increase in general funds for the Department of Natural Resources, which houses the Colorado Parks and Wildlife division, was for more funding to assist with wolf reintroduction.
