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Committee endorses Senate File 52 funding package for wildlife and invasive-species projects
Summary
The Select Natural Resource Funding Committee voted 7–0 to advance Senate File 52, a large-project funding package presented by the Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust that includes stream restoration, cheatgrass treatments, mule-deer habitat work and a fish-screen on the South Fork canal.
The Joint Select Natural Resource Funding Committee voted to advance Senate File 52 after hearing a series of large-project presentations from the Wildlife and Natural Resource Trust.
Director Bob Budd told the committee the Trust brings projects before the legislature once cumulative funding reaches its large-project threshold. "The threshold for a large project is $400,000," Budd said, and he described a slate of multi-year efforts the Trust proposes for the coming cycle.
Among the projects Budd described was the "upper graybel" stream restoration, which he said will improve irrigation efficiency, remove perched culverts and install arches to reopen upstream passage for native fish. Budd said a senate amendment corrected the miles of stream in the bill to "40 miles" and that an additional $150 (as listed in the…
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