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DNR and CPW leaders brief commissioners on budget risks, wolf program pressures and wildfire responses
Summary
DNR Executive Director Dan Gibbs and CPW Deputy Director Reid DeWalt updated the commission on a special legislative session called to address federal H.R.1 budget impacts, a state hiring freeze, recent staffing changes and operational challenges including a stabbing of a seasonal ranger, active wildfires and contested wolf management issues.
Colorado Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Dan Gibbs and CPW Deputy Director Reid DeWalt briefed the commission Aug. 21 on a set of crosscutting issues: budget uncertainty from federal changes, staff transitions, wildfire response, and ongoing operational controversy around the wolf restoration program.
Budget: Director Gibbs told the commission Governor Polis called a special session to address fiscal impacts from a federal law (referred to in the briefing as H.R. 1) that reduces state revenue by an estimated $1.2 billion and could produce larger indirect impacts when federal matching funds are considered. The special session priorities include health care, food assistance, and other social…
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