DNR and CPW outline budget request, range riders and Outdoor Strategy funding
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Summary
Executive Director Dan Gibbs presented the governor’s budget highlights — expanded staffing, range riders for wolf‑livestock conflicts, and capital requests — and CPW and GOCO reported $15M+ in grant recommendations, RPI funding, and conservation projects for regional partners.
Executive Director Dan Gibbs summarized the DNR and CPW priorities in the governor’s budget request and associated capital asks. Gibbs said the DNR request includes expanded staff, targeted funding for state parks and conservation, and support for wolf‑livestock conflict mitigation: "This also helps, sustain Colorado's wildlife and livestock resources through increasing funding to ensure CPW has additional resources to manage, minimize, and mitigate wolf and livestock conflicts." He said the budget requests 10 additional range riders to help producers and that the two‑part capital construction request totals about $23.4 million, including $11 million for state wildlife area infrastructure and $12.1 million for habitat/land/water acquisition.
Great Outdoors Colorado representatives (Dan Zimmer, Alex Castino) described grant rounds, a $1M one‑time boost to outdoor equity grants, and recommended competitive investments for land conservation and regional partnership implementation. GOCO said roughly half of its funds flow through CPW and highlighted RPI grants and generation‑wild community investments.
