WDFW Underfunding
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:51 am
A Seattle Times guest editorial last week urged the Legislature to stop underfunding WDFW. The writers pointed out that WDFW faces a $15 million a year funding gap while sales taxes on "purchases to enjoy fish and wildlife" annually return $120 million more to state coffers than legislators invest in sustaining and protecting those resources. A budget and policy advisory group assembled by WDFW two years ago recommended increasing WDFW's budget by $60 million in the next biennium, a quarter of which would come from license fee increases, the rest from general funds. This is something we should support. Read the editorial here, then let your legislators know you support its conclusions:
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