By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics
The hunt for coins in the couch cushions — the Colorado General Assembly’s budget crafters are scrambling to find hundreds of millions of dollars to cover a shortfall projected for the 2025-26 budget and are eyeing wolf funding as a potential area to cut — is getting pushback from Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
And the agency has now resorted to omitting a crucial portion of the law that mandated the wolves’ reintroduction as it seeks to persuade lawmakers to fund Colorado’s reintroduction program.
Lawmakers have noticed that omission.
The issue is whether to fund the wolf reintroduction program in the 2025-26 budget year or save the $2.1 million in general fund dollars appropriated annually for the program.