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Northeast Washington wolf-livestock management bill draws sharply divided testimony on nonlethal versus lethal tools
Summary
Senate Bill 5343 would make permanent budget provisos that expanded allowable uses of the Northeast Washington wolf livestock management account to include broader wolf-livestock management and grants to local sheriff’s offices, prompting sharply divided testimony over nonlethal and lethal responses.
Senate Bill 5343, concerning allowable uses of the Northeast Washington wolf livestock management account, generated sharply divided public testimony at the Appropriations Committee.
Dan Jones, committee staff, said the account is a nonappropriated Department of Agriculture fund created in 2017 for grants and nonlethal wolf deterrents in counties east of the Cascades that border Canada. He told the committee the account has no independent revenue source and has been funded through appropriations in the operating budget; recent budget provisos expanded allowable uses to include wolf-livestock management generally and grants to the sheriff’s offices of Stevens and…
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