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DNR briefing: two-thirds of department funding is restricted; license fee and one-time program requests outlined
Summary
House Fiscal Agency analyst Austin Scott told the subcommittee that about two-thirds of Department of Natural Resources funding comes from restricted accounts and highlighted FY2027 executive requests including a Nature Awaits one-time program, proposed hunting/fishing and watercraft fee increases, and restricted fund capital outlay adjustments.
Austin Scott, fiscal analyst with the House Fiscal Agency, told the House Subcommittee on Rural Development and Natural Resources that roughly two-thirds of the Department of Natural Resources' funding is drawn from about 39–40 restricted accounts and that three funds (the State Park Improvement Account, the Game and Fish Protection Account, and the Forest Development Fund) make up about 60% of restricted funding. "Two thirds of funding in DNR comes from restricted funding," Scott said to illustrate the department's revenue mix.
Scott described DNR's scale — roughly 4.5 million acres under management and 103 state park facilities — and explained how revenue sources such as recreation passport sales (a $14 purchase) flow to park funds and local grants. He said the State Park Endowment Fund, which receives extraction revenues (oil, gas, minerals)…
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