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Committee approves 2026 large-project funding bill for wildlife and invasive-species projects
Summary
The Select Natural Resource Funding Committee approved bill draft 26LSO-157, a 2026 large-project funding bill covering six landscape and fish-passage projects (including fish screens and cheatgrass treatments). The bill passed by committee vote 5–0 with one member excused.
The Select Natural Resource Funding Committee voted to approve bill draft 26LSO-157, a 2026 large-project funding bill that packages six landscape-scale and fish-passage projects, advancing the proposal out of committee by a 5–0 roll-call vote (Co‑chairman Williams excused).
The bill funds a mix of projects the Wyoming Wildlife Natural Resource Trust (WWNRT) and its partners prioritize, including completion work on the Upper Grama fish-passage project, a fifth phase of the Baggs Valley Headwaters restoration, cheatgrass-control phases in the Absaroka Front, North Platte corridor and western Wyoming, and a large drum fish screen proposed for the Cody Canal.
Bob Budd, director of the Wyoming Wildlife Natural Resource Trust, told the committee the Upper Grama completion included fish ladders, irrigation-diversion work and culvert replacements and that…
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