a. Who will pay for management, monitoring, and depredation activities?
- Funding through sales of hunting license and tag fees and cost-sharing with landowner and non-governmental organizations.
- About 16% of CDFW’s funding comes from tax dollars in the state General Fund and about 20% comes from hunting and fishing license fees. Other sources include endangered-species tax checkoff funds, environmental license plate sales, fees, fines or mitigation, voter-approved bond measures, federal grant programs, and donations.
b. How much will it cost?
- program costs are expected to be smaller during the initial years of wolf recovery when there are fewer wolves to monitor
- $100,000/yr (1 wolf specialist),
- $60,000-100,000/yr (6 Wildlife Biologist
- Funding through sales of hunting license and tag fees and cost-sharing with landowner and non-governmental organizations.
- About 16% of CDFW’s funding comes from tax dollars in the state General Fund and about 20% comes from hunting and fishing license fees. Other sources include endangered-species tax checkoff funds, environmental license plate sales, fees, fines or mitigation, voter-approved bond measures, federal grant programs, and donations.
b. How much will it cost?
- program costs are expected to be smaller during the initial years of wolf recovery when there are fewer wolves to monitor
- $100,000/yr (1 wolf specialist),
- $60,000-100,000/yr (6 Wildlife Biologist