The savings would be relatively meager — wolf reintroduction cost Colorado taxpayers $3.5 million last year — but the Democrat leading the measure says it’s about priorities as the legislature contends with a steep drop in state tax revenue.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers representing the Western Slope plan to introduce a bill during the special legislative session that begins Thursday that would pause wolf reintroduction for one year — and pause some related spending — amid a nearly $1 billion hole in the state budget.
